joul

Verb (1)

jowl (third-person singular simple present jowls, present participle jowling, simple past and past participle jowled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw, dash, or knock.
   • That ſkull had a tongue in it, and could ſing once, how the knave iowles it to the ground, as if twere Caines iawbone, that did the firſt murder, this might be the pate of a pollitician, which this aſſe now ore-reaches; one that would circumuent God, might it not?c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604...

Verb (2)

jowl (third-person singular simple present jowls, present participle jowling, simple past and past participle jowled)

1. (dialectal, transitive) To knock, bump, strike against; hit, strike; peck at.
2. (dialectal, transitive) To jolt or shake roughly; shake up, mix together.
3. (dialectal, transitive) To rumble.
4. (dialectal, transitive) To toll, knell.

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