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goyal - What does it mean?

Definition of 'goyal'

English

Noun

(en-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.

    Similar to 'goyal'

    gull, goal, ghoul, gaol, gall, gill, geal, ghyll, gell, gowl, guaiol, goll, gyil, gwall, goel, gyall, gayal