Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An opening in the ground; the entrance to a cave or cavern.
- noun A place into which dirty water, etc., is thrown; a sink. Also
jaw-box , jaw-foot.
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Examples
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Jock moved on westward, by the end of the house, leading Mannerings horse by the bridle, and piloting, with some dexterity, along the little path which bordered the formidable jaw-hole, whose vicinity the stranger was made sensible of by means of more organs than one.
Chapter I 1917
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Ye maun haud wessel by the end o the loan, and take tent o the jaw-hole.
Chapter I 1917
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'Ye maun baud wessel by the end o' the loan, and take tent o 'the jaw-hole.'
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Jock moved on westward by the end of the house, leading Mannering's horse by the bridle, and piloting with some dexterity along the little path which bordered the formidable jaw-hole, whose vicinity the stranger was made sensible of by means of more organs than one.
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'Ye maun baud wessel by the end o' the loan, and take tent o 'the jaw-hole.'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Jock moved on westward by the end of the house, leading Mannering's horse by the bridle, and piloting with some dexterity along the little path which bordered the formidable jaw-hole, whose vicinity the stranger was made sensible of by means of more organs than one.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Jock moved on westward by the end of the house, leading Mannering's horse by the bridle, and piloting with some dexterity along the little path which bordered the formidable jaw-hole, whose vicinity the stranger was made sensible of by means of more organs than one.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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'Ye maun baud wessel by the end o' the loan, and take tent o 'the jaw-hole.'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Jock moved on westward by the end of the house, leading Mannering’s horse by the bridle, and piloting with some dexterity along the little path which bordered the formidable jaw-hole, whose vicinity the stranger was made sensible of by means of more organs than one.
Guy Mannering 1815
ruzuzu commented on the word jaw-hole
From the Century:
"n. A place into which dirty water, etc., is thrown; a sink. Also jaw-box, jaw-foot.
n. An opening in the ground; the entrance to a cave or cavern."
July 30, 2015