goyles

Noun

goyle (plural goyles)

1. A ravine or other depression.
   • Into a deep goyle they plunge, and then up the far side to where a ploughman has halted his team that he may watch the sport. There the hounds come to a check suddenly.1895, Oswald Crawfurd, A Year of Sport and Natural History: Shooting, Hunting, Coursing, Falconry and Fishing with Chapters on Birds of Prey, the Nidification of Birds and the Habits of British Wild...