jawful

• The person who eats the size of a big date and its grain, and drinks a jawful, is liable to punishment. —  Hebrew Literature
• I've never been the dog to drop a good jawful of solids to snap at its shadow. —  The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
• o 'bacca, for a whole jawful of tooth-aches: I'll tell you, dame, what I did with them ere crocks, wholes, and parts. —  The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
• All edible things are united for the measure of the date, and all drinkable things are united for the measure of the jawful. —  Hebrew Literature
• They had to be ready with their bayonets, as sign of hyenas was common; and the beast, which slinks away in the open is apt, when brought to bay in caverns, to rush past the intruder, carrying off a jawful of calf or thigh. —  The Land of Midian — Volume 2

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