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jowler
[? < Brit. dial. jowl knock on the head + -er]
Sealing, Nfld
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a lucky or successful person, especially a captain bringing home a large catch.
Quotations
1924
Jowler. Lucky or successful person.
1933
A JOWLER . . . the name given to the most famous of the sealing Captains. It is the greatest honour the Seal Hunt can bestow.
1958
They found "Cap'n Art'ur" keeping up his long-established tradition as one of the seal fishery's leading "jowlers" ; the Resolute was loaded to the hatches and about to bear up for home [St. John's].