A molar tooth. Cf. CHEEK-TOOTH.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 440. If the grinders and great jaw teeth doe ake, this is a speciall medicine for them.
1611. Bible, Prov. xxx. 14. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their iaw-teeth as kniues, to dououre the poore from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 670. The former teeth were made … thin and sharp, by means whereof they became fit for cutting; but the jaw-teeth thick and broad, whereby they became useful for the grinding of food.
1789. Madan, Persius (1795), 39, note. Grinding food between the jaw-teeth.
1837. Wheelwright, trans. Aristophanes, II. 8. In wrestlers’ fashion, plying his jaw-teeth.
