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jawbreaker [′jȯ‚brāk·ər]
(mechanical engineering)


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For a quick snack, Italian grocery stores sell muffulettes and po-boys - jawbreaking sandwiches that require a big appetite.
Martines's erudition rests lightly on these pages, and the reader is spared the jawbreaking neologisms that, in the guise of theoretical analysis, often pepper such efforts.
One of my favorite poets (and a great theologian), Gerard Manley Hopkins, summed up the significance of the Resurrection in a poem with the jawbreaking title, "That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and Of the Comfort of the Resurrection.
 
 
 
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