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Ravine vs Goyal - What's the difference?

ravine | goyal |

As nouns the difference between ravine and goyal

is that ravine is a deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water while goyal is a ravine or other depression.

ravine

English

("ravine" on Wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=3 citation , passage=He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.}}

    Derived terms

    * ravine-buck * ravined * ravine-deer

    Related terms

    * ravinement

    See also

    * canyon * gorge * gulley, gully * valley

    Anagrams

    * ----

    goyal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ravine or other depression.
  • * 1985 , John Fowles, A Maggot :
    • ’Twas thrown in a goyal of thick bushes, four hundred paces from the road. But he who found it saw a glint of the brass, amid the leaves.
  • * 1869 , RD Blackmore, Lorna Doone , III:
    • We were come to a long deep “goyal ,” as they call it on Exmoor, a word whose fountain and origin I have nothing to do with.