Goyal
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Noun
- A ravine or other depression.
- 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
- ’Twas thrown in a goyal of thick bushes, four hundred paces from the road. But he who found it saw a glint of the brass, amid the leaves.
- 1869, RD Blackmore, Lorna Doone, III:
- We were come to a long deep “goyal,” as they call it on Exmoor, a word whose fountain and origin I have nothing to do with.
- 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot: