goyal

English

Etymology

Origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡɔɪəl/

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.