Jowl

Definitions

1. The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
2. A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
3. A blow, bump, knock.
   dialectal
4. The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
5. The tolling of a bell; knell.
   dialectal
6. A cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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; […]”

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