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jowler [? < Brit. dial. jowl knock on the head + -er] Sealing, Nfld

• n. a lucky or successful person, especially a captain bringing home a large catch.

  • 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].