joul

English

Verb

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

“joul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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