"goyle" meaning in English

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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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1921, Littell's Living Age, page 738:",
          "text": "They likewise passed into the deep goyle, where I could not see them, and then, almost immediately, the chorus ceased, nor for some minutes did I hear another sound.",
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          "ref": "1922, The National Review:",
          "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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          "ref": "1958, Roads and Road Construction: A Monthly Record of Road Engineering and Development:",
          "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:",
          "text": "The scene was very animated and interesting to watch but the effort of trying to make sense of so much confusion was exhausting and, from time to time, I turned away and deliberately lost myself in the deep goyle that ran down to the cove ...",
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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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        "A ravine or other depression."
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      "ipa": "/ˈɡɔɪəl/"
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