ganil
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ganil (uncountable)
- (UK, dialect) A kind of brittle limestone.
- 1799, John Coakley Lettsom, The Naturalist's and Traveller's Companion:
- Here [in Pure limes] may be included stalactites , marble , limestone , chalk , zufa , ganil
References edit
- “ganil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.