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Quotation dates: 1786-1834, 1885
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†JOWLER, n. A heavy-jawed dog of the hound type. Obs. exc. dial. in Eng. since 1755.Ayr. 1786 Burns Address Beelzebub 49–50:
Get out a horsewhip or a jowler, The langest thong, the fiercest growler.Sc. 1834 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1856) IV. 95:
A kennel for the Duke's jowlers.e.Lth. 1885 J. Lumsden Rhymes 5:
Jowler, tak' the red tod my bonnie lambs wad slay!
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