David
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:08 pm
Post subject: Re: goyal |
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In article <Xns95531C4D1C26Rrrr99Ffff88Tttt77ho@209.98.13.60>,
Jim Land <RrrrFfffTtttNOSPAM@hotNOSPAMmail.NOSPAMcom> wrote:
| Quote: | In Arthur Conan Doyle's "Hound of the Baskervilles" (1901) he uses
the word "goyal" in Chapter 2. The meaning is pretty clear from the
context:
"...a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor..."
What puzzles me is that "goyal" appears in none of the dictionaries
on the web.
Anyone have an OED to check? Or is this just an expression local to
Devonshire?
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NSOED has it as dialect, also (earlier) "goyle", early 17th century,
[origin unknown], a deep gully, a ravine.
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