jowl

plural jowls · alternative obsolete jole · alternative obsolete joll

1. The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.

   And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]

   1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33

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   I had lain, therefore, all that time, cheek by jowl with Blackbeard himself, with only a thin shell of tinder wood to keep him from me, and now had thrust my hand into his coffin and plucked away his beard.

   [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC

present singular third person jowls · participle present jowling · participle past jowled · past jowled · alternative obsolete jole · alternative obsolete joll

1. obsoletetransitiveTo throw, dash, or knock.

   That ſkull had a tongue in it, and could ſing once, how the knave iowles it to the ground, as if twere Caines iawbone, that did the firſt murder, this might be the pate of a pollitician, which this aſſe now ore-reaches; one that would circumuent God, might it not?

   That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once – how that knave [a gravedigger] throws it to the ground, as if it was the jawbone of Cain, who committed the first murder. This might have been the head of a politician, which this ass now gets the better of; one that could have talked its way around God, might it not?

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]

plural jowls · alternative chowl · alternative joul · alternative obsolete jole · alternative obsolete joll

1. A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
2. The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
3. A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts

present singular third person jowls · participle present jowling · participle past jowled · past jowled · alternative obsolete geoll · alternative obsolete joule · alternative obsolete joul · alternative obsolete jole · alternative obsolete jole · alternative obsolete joll

1. dialectaltransitiveTo knock, bump, strike against; hit, strike; peck at.
2. dialectaltransitiveTo jolt or shake roughly; shake up, mix together.
3. dialectaltransitiveTo rumble.
4. dialectaltransitiveTo toll, knell.

plural jowls · alternative obsolete geoll · alternative obsolete joule · alternative obsolete joul · alternative obsolete jole · alternative obsolete jole · alternative obsolete joll

1. dialectalA blow, bump, knock.
2. dialectalThe tolling of a bell; knell.