jowl

Meanings

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

1. To throw, dash, or knock.

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

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

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

Etymology

From Middle English jawle, chawl, chavel (“jaw, jawbone”), from Old English ċeafl (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-West Germanic *kafl (“jaw, cheek”). The modern form (for expected chavel, chawl; still found dialectally) is influenced by jaw, which it is a partial doublet of.