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Definition of paxwaxes - 1 dictionary result

pax⋅wax

[paks-waks]
–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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