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jowl
CIDE DICTIONARY
jowl, n. [For older chole, chaul, AS. ceaft jaw. Cf. Chaps.].
The cheek; the jaw. [1913 Webster]
jowl, v. t.
To throw, dash, or knock. [1913 Webster]
"How the knave jowls it to the ground." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
jowl, n.
1 the jaw or jawbone.
2 the cheek (cheek by jowl).
1 the jaw or jawbone.
2 the cheek (cheek by jowl).
Derivative
-jowled adj. (in comb.).
jowl, n.
1 the external loose skin on the throat or neck when prominent.
2 the dewlap of oxen, wattle of a bird, etc.
1 the external loose skin on the throat or neck when prominent.
2 the dewlap of oxen, wattle of a bird, etc.
Derivative
jowly adj.
Etymology
ME cholle neck f. OE ceole
THESAURUS
jowl
bank, bazoo, beam, border, broadside, chaps, cheek, chop, chops, coast, embouchure, flank, gab, gob, hand, handedness, haunch, hip, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, laterality, lips, mandibles, many-sidedness, maw, maxilla, mouth, mug, multilaterality, mush, muzzle, oral cavity, planking, premaxilla, profile, quarter, shore, side, siding, temple, trap, unilaterality, yapROGET THESAURUS
jowl
Laterality
N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.For further exploring for "jowl" in Webster Dictionary Online