Chawing [verb]

As soon as they disappear they make way for the "horn worm" who now takes his turn at a "chaw."

Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own.

Well, I bet you can't find skins or Birch bark enough in this woods to make a teepee big enough for a Chipmunk to chaw nuts in.

But theyre bitin off a big chaw, and it tickles me to see em do it.

It ran straight up through the center of the cabin and was as yaller as a chaw of cavendish, when it's pretty well chawed.

To express the impossibility of doing two inconsistent things at the same time:—'You can't whistle and chaw meal.'

He looked at me a second with a pair of eyes of sharp, glittering blackness, and then asked: “Chaw, stranger?”

As the sailor once said of a piece of rather solid beef, "There's a great deal of chaw in it."

I want ter chaw terbacker fur awhile, an' I can't talk an' chaw.

“Hit air saw off er chaw off,” he would remark laconically, as he tried first one implement and then the other.