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Jowl   /dʒaʊl/   Listen
noun
Jowl  n.  (Written also jole, choule, chowle, and geoule)  The cheek; the jaw.
Cheek by jowl, with the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity. "I will go with thee cheek by jole." " Sits cheek by jowl."



verb
Jowl  v. t.  To throw, dash, or knock. (Obs.) "How the knave jowls it to the ground."






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"Jowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... of politics," said Montgomery, gloomily. "Of course it doesn't demoralize you so long as you keep your own hands clean, but it is sickening to suspect that you are sitting cheek by jowl in the Committee Room with a man whose pocket is stuffed with some ...
— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton

... sort of Pizarro, with a dash of D'Artagnan, was treated in a most scurvy manner by Lord Derby. Had MacIver not been thwarted in his enterprise, the whole of New Guinea would now have been under the British flag, and we should not be cheek-by-jowl with the Germans, as we are in too ...
— Real Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis

... day. I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not think that any burglar ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

... from Stettin was to provide us with material for a special article and a leading article. His proposals were to be made a "feature." However, I thought I had gone far enough with him at this time; and so, looking from his pendulous jowl to the card in my hand, I told Rivers to ask the lady to wait for two minutes, and to say that I would see her then. I remember Herr Mitmann found the occasion opportune for the airing of what I suppose he would have called ...
— The Message • Alec John Dawson

... from the stern-thwart of an Iona lugger, Sam Bough and I sitting there cheek by jowl, with our feet upon our baggage, in a beautiful, clear, northern summer eve. And behold! there was now a pier of stone, there were rows of sheds, railways, travelling-cranes, a street of cottages, an iron house for the resident engineer, wooden bothies ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson


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