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jole

jole is the obsolete spelling of jowl.

Meaning of jowl

Noun (1)

jowl (plural jowls)

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

Noun (2)

jowl (plural jowls)

  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

Noun (3)

jowl (plural jowls)

  1. (dialectal) A blow, bump, knock.
  2. (dialectal) The tolling of a bell; knell.

See all 11 meanings of jowl

Forms of jole

Noun
pluraljoles
Verb
third-person singular presentjoles
present participlejoling
past participlejoled
pastjoled

Questions about jole

What is jole the obsolete spelling of?
Jole is the obsolete spelling of jowl.

Words near jole in the dictionary

  1. jokuls
  2. joky
  3. jol
  4. Jola
  5. Jolani
  6. jole
  7. joled
  8. Joleen
  9. Jolene
  10. joles
  11. Joleses

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