See goyle on Wiktionary
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"ref": "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 Birds and Animals, page 16:",
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"text": "Swerving from his course, he went crashing down the slope, like a boulder discharged from the crag above, sprang headlong into the water, and disappeared into a narrow deep goyle through which the river ran.",
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"ref": "1939, Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset ...:",
"text": "Before the brook flows past Pitminster Church, it passes through a deep goyle. Here it is crossed by a footpath leading from Woodram to the village of Blagdon Hill. The path is carried across the goyle on a wooden bridge.",
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"text": "Following survey it was decided that elimination of the bend at Rushycombe would involve culverting and filling in a deep goyle, [and] that the filling for this job could be obtained from Telegraph Hill.",
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"ref": "1967, Ronald Frederick Delderfield, Cheap Day Return:",
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"ref": "2008, Richard Anthony Edwards, Geology of the Jurassic Coast: The Red Coast Revealed : Exmouth to Lyme Regis, Harbour Publishing, →ISBN:",
"text": "Just south of the road, the infant stream descends into a deep goyle.",
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