Definitions
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- n. A ravine or other depression.
Etymologies
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Examples
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These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slinking away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
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This valley, or goyal, as we term it, being small for a valley, lies to the west of Linton, about a mile from the town perhaps, and away towards Ley Manor.
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It was a most lucky thing for me, that I heard their clothes catch in the brambles, and saw their hats under the rampart of ash, which is made by what we call ‘splashing,’ and lucky, for me that I stood in a goyal, and had the dark coppice behind me.
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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.
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Only I know that when little boys laughed at me at Tiverton, for talking about a ‘goyal,’ a big boy clouted them on the head, and said that it was in Homer, and meant the hollow of the hand.
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These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whim - pering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slinking away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
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The most of them would by no means advance, but three of them, the boldest, or it may be the most drunken, rode forward down the goyal.
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But the noise of the water told me where I was; and I got up, and ran for the life of me, till I came to the goyal.
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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.
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It was a most lucky thing for me, that I heard their clothes catch in the brambles, and saw their hats under the rampart of ash, which is made by what we call 'splashing,' and lucky, for me that I stood in a goyal, and had the dark coppice behind me.
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