goyal

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

Origin unknown.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'gɔɪəl/

[edit] Noun

goyal (plural goyals)

1. 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.