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单词 jaw-hole
释义 I. jaw-hole1|ˈdʒɔːˌhəʊl|
[f. jaw n.2, v.2 + hole.]
A hole into which dirty water or other liquid is ‘jawed’ or thrown; an open entrance to a sewer, house-drain, or cesspool.
1760City Cleaned & County Improv., Jaw-holls or water⁓spouts of timber [etc.].1815Scott Guy M. i, 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.1824St. Ronan's xxviii, That odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer.
II. ˈjaw-hole2
[jaw n.1]
A gaping fissure or opening; an abyss.
1840T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany II. xxxiv. 187 A sort of jaw-hole, or abyss, moreover, is still pointed out between Huelgoat and Cairhax, which this vixen of a princess used as a second—or rather first—Tour de Nesle.1876Whitby Gloss., Jaw-hooal, a fissure or opening in the land, as the mouth of a stream. The arched entrance to a cavern.
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