joul
English edit
Verb edit
joul (third-person singular simple present jouls, present participle jouling, simple past and past participle jouled)
- Alternative form of jowl (in the phrase cheek by jowl)
- 1663, [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, canto 1:
- Between his knees, his hands applied
Unto his ears on either side.
And by him, in another hole,
Afflicted Ralpho, cheek by joul.
References edit
- “joul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.