lock-jaw

One kid next to my station had never fired a gun and when the instructor put the grenade in his hand and the kid pulled the pin he got lock-jaw, literally, and he could do nothing but stand there with a live grenade.

Here's another chance to tell your interesting hunting or war stories. 2009

One kid next to my station had never fired a gun and when the instructor put the grenade in his hand and the kid pulled the pin he got lock-jaw, literally, and he could do nothing but stand there with a live grenade.

Here's another chance to tell your interesting hunting or war stories. 2009

Dad had cut his thumb on a saw, it became badly infected resulting in lock-jaw tetanus.

Australian Story Online - Chapter 2 2009

Brian didn't really understand what was going on and Degan was the most obnoxious lock-jaw anchor I've ever seen on national or local television.

CNBC Served the Public - The Charlie Warner Report 2008

Brian didn't really understand what was going on and Degan was the most obnoxious lock-jaw anchor I've ever seen on national or local television.

Charles Warner: CNBC Served the Public 2008

So I was elbow deep in furnace guts last night until about 2AM, wedged between a wall and metal panel, contorted into a space that would have been tight for a pygmy, cutting my stomach on a jagged, rusty grating which will no doubt shortly result in my getting lock-jaw-- but I finally coaxed the old beast of a furnace into firing up again.

Archive 2008-12-01 Kosmo 2008

So I was elbow deep in furnace guts last night until about 2AM, wedged between a wall and metal panel, contorted into a space that would have been tight for a pygmy, cutting my stomach on a jagged, rusty grating which will no doubt shortly result in my getting lock-jaw-- but I finally coaxed the old beast of a furnace into firing up again.

Furnace Kosmo 2008

Daimios 'lips were drawn back in a horrible rictus, like that of a corpse who had died of the lock-jaw.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

On being informed that Harriet was "all right," the following extract from a subsequent letter, expresses his satisfaction over the good news, and at the same time, indicates his sympathy for a "poor traveler," who had fallen a victim to the cold weather, and being severely frost-bitten, had died of lock-jaw, as related on page 52.

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

Botanical Gardens of Calcutta; he says the pain so affected the lower part of his face that he feared lock-jaw.

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton