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单词 goyle
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goylen.

/ɡɔɪl/
Forms: English regional (south-western) 1600s goile, 1800s goil, 1800s goyle, 1800s– goyal.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: gool n.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a variant of gool n., although the phonology is difficult to account for. Compare gowl n.1 2, and also gole n.2, gull n.4 2.
English regional (south-western).
A deep trench, a ravine.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine
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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).
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