Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A ravine or other depression.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Origin unknown.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word goyal.

Examples

  • 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.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • 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.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • 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.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • 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.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • 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.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • 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.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • 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.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • 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.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • 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.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • 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.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.