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Definition of paxwax - 1 dictionary result

pax⋅wax

  [paks-waks]
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–noun British Dialect.
the neck ligament; nuchal ligament.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME, alter. of ME fax wax lit., hair growth (cf. OE feax hair, weaxan to grow; see wax 2 ); cf. G Haarwachs sinew, lit., hair growth
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