the upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a ravenous creature
If you describe something as a maw, you mean that it is like a big open mouth which swallows everything near it. helping to chop wood to feed the red maw of the stove
A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt