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Before the door of Saunders Jaup, a feuar of some importance, “who held his land free, and caredna a bodle for any one,” yawned that odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Before the door of Saunders Jaup, a feuar of some importance, "who held his land free, and caredna a bodle for any one," yawned that odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
whichbe commented on the word jawhole
(Scot.) An uncovered sewer, house-drain, or cesspool.
May 12, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word jawhole
Also jarhole.
May 23, 2011