| 释义 |
goyle dial.|gɔɪl|
Also 7 goile, 9 goyal.
A deep trench, a ravine.
1617Lane Cont. Sqr.'s T. 414 Canac, his daughter..whome theare hee made right perfect in the skilles of ridinge goiles, plaines, ruffetes, dales, and hills. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. iii, We were come to a long deep ‘goyal’, as they call it on Exmoor. 1873Q. Rev. CXXXV. 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. 1886in Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. s.v., A scramble down into the goyal; a clatter up the other side. 1894B. Whitby Mary Fenwick's Dau. III. 123 There are landmarks down, and ‘goyles’ blocked up. 1902A. Conan Doyle Hound of Baskervilles ii. 24 Three of them..rode forward down the goyal. 1963Times 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. |