jaw-holen.1
/ˈdʒɔːhəʊl/, U.S. /ˈdʒɔˌhoʊl/, /ˈdʒɑˌhoʊl/ A hole into which dirty water or other liquid is ‘jawed’ or thrown; an open entrance to a sewer, house-drain, or cesspool.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > sewage treatment > [noun] > use of cesspools or lagoons > cesspool or pit
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sewage lagoon1930
1760 City Cleaned & County Improv. Jaw-holls or water~spouts of timber [etc.].
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. i. 12 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.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. ii. 25 That odoriferous filthy gulph, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jaw-hole, in other words, an uncovered common sewer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jaw-holen.2
/ˈdʒɔːhəʊl/, U.S. /ˈdʒɔˌhoʊl/, /ˈdʒɑˌhoʊl/ A gaping fissure or opening; an abyss.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > abyss
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jaw-hole1840
1840 T. 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.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby 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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