▪ 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.
| 1760 City Cleaned & County Improv., Jaw-holls or water⁓spouts of timber [etc.]. 1815 Scott 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. 1824 ― St. 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.
| 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 Whitby Gloss., Jaw-hooal, a fissure or opening in the land, as the mouth of a stream. The arched entrance to a cavern. |