Lexicographical Neighbors of Jawhole
Literary usage of Jawhole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"jawhole. In Scotland, a sink of any kind. A place for pouring out or carrying
away slops ; from the Scotch verb, jaw, to pour out. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"jawhole. Sc. jaw, the dash of the sea ; jaw-hole, a gully-hole, sink where slops
are thrown. Fr. gâchis, splashing ; G.gauche, slops ; mist-gauche, ..."
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