单词 | goyle |
释义 | goylen. English regional (south-western). A deep trench, a ravine. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine cloughc1330 heugha1400 straitc1400 gillc1440 gulfa1533 gull1553 gap1555 coomb1578 gullet1600 nick1606 goyle1617 gully1637 nullah1656 ravine1687 barrancaa1691 kloof1731 ravin1746 water gap1756 gorge1769 arroyo1777 quebrada1787 rambla1789 flume1792 linn1799 cañada1814 gulch1832 cañon1834 canyon1837 khud1837 couloir1855 draw1864 box canyon1869 sitch1888 tangi1901 opena1903 1617 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale 414 Canac, his daughter..whome theare hee made right perfect in the skilles of ridinge goiles, plaines, ruffetes, dales, and hills. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. iii. 32 We were come to a long deep ‘goyal’, as they call it on Exmoor. 1873 Q. Rev. 135 146 Dartmoor abounds in..traces of a very numerous population, which..found its chief occupation in streaming for tin—the ‘goyles’ or deep trenches of their old works being everywhere visible. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) A scramble down into the goyal; a clatter up the other side. 1894 B. Whitby Mary Fenwick's Daughter III. 123 There are landmarks down, and ‘goyles’ blocked up. 1902 A. Conan Doyle Hound of Baskervilles ii. 24 Three of them..rode forward down the goyal. 1963 Times 26 Apr. 16/6 On my left tumbles the brook at the bottom of a deep gully—what we call in Devon a goyal—deep enough to take a horse and cart. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1617 |
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