Meaning of jawbox | Babel Free

Definitions

A tenement sink.

Scotland, dated

Examples

“After a week he had to accept that he was growing a black beard, not because he wanted one, but because he could think of no way of shaving. There was a jaw-box in the tiny kitchen but no taps.”

“She snatches towels from the laundry basket — two, three, four —soaks them at the jawbox sink and lays them along the bottom of the kitchen door.”

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