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‖ jol|dʒəʊl|
Also djōl, jāl, jaul, jawl, johl, jōl.
[Arab.]
The local name (often with capital initial) for a barren, much dissected, limestone plateau south of Wadi Hadhramaut in the Arabian peninsula; also applied (often with captial initial) to different regions within this plateau, and (with lower-case initial) to the individual blocks of tableland into which the whole plateau is dissected.
By some writers the plateau itself is designated by the plural form.
1904D. G. Hogarth Penetration of Arabia ii. ix. 217 The guides conducted Hirsch through the cultivated coastal district..up to bare down-land, ‘Jol’, rising to six thousand five hundred feet. Ibid. 219 At the head of this [sc. a valley] he found himself once more on the downs of the Jol, a wild, arid, broken country. 1921Handbk. Arabia (Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Div.) I. vii. 218 Physically the Hadhramaut may be divided into four main horizontal belts:..(b) a broad belt of downs or plateaux (jāl) diversified by a few outstanding peaks. 1932Van der Meulen & Von Wissman Hadramaut iii. 53 Our way now led over the djōl as far as Wādī Dōcan. The djōl consists of vast table-lands of reddish-brown limestone. Ibid. xvi. 210 This djōl differed little in character from that which we had crossed on our way to Wādī Dōcan. 1936F. Stark Southern Gates Arabia ix. 87 The Jōl has usually been dismissed by travellers as a piece of dull dreariness, a plateau where heat and cold are alike unbearable. 1940― Winter in Arabia iii. 14 Our lorry..began to climb long broken ridges that lead to the tilted plateau of the jōl. Ibid., Jōl—waterless steppe plateau. 1945Antiquity XIX. 189, I expect that these stone-age people lived very much the life that the Beduins of the northern jols of the Hadhramaut on the edge of the Rub'al Khali live today. 1946Western Arabia & Red Sea (Geogr. Handbk. Ser. B.R. 527, Admiralty, Naval Intelligence Div.) ii. 32 To the north the land rises to 3,500 feet between the wadi and the desert, but to the south altitudes of 6,000 feet and more are attained. These barren jōls are dissected into detached blocks of tableland by an extraordinarily intricate network of canyons and valleys. 1958Geogr. Jrnl. CXXIV. 165 This is Wādī Hadramaut..which is enclosed by the precipices of the limestone strata of a wide and barren table land, the Jaul. 1961U.S. Board on Geogr. Names, Gazetteer no. 54: Arabian Peninsula p. vi, Jawl..plateau, plain. 1966J. Lunt Barren Rocks Aden ix. 139 We were now on the johl, as the Arabs call the mountainous plateau which lies between the coast and the Wadi Hadhramaut, and between the Wadi Hadhramaut and the Empty Quarter. 1966W. C. Brice S.-W. Asia xii. 253 Further inland, in the districts known as the Jols, the limestone surface..is scored with a maze of ravines. |