CHEEK, n.
1. The side of the face below the eyes on each side.
2. Among mechanics, cheeks are those pieces of a machine which form corresponding sides, or which are double and alike as the cheeks of a printing press, which stand perpendicular and support the three sommers, the head, shelves and winter the cheeks of a turners lathe the cheeks of a glaziers vise the cheeks of a mortar, and of a gun-carriage the cheeks of a mast, which serve to sustain the trestle trees, &c.
Cheek by jowl, closeness, proximity.