ghyll
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But then so did the telephone, the railway, internal combustion, photography, laudanum, mirror glass, fire, television, gunpowder, the crossbow, distillation, the slingshot, the bridge high across a foaming ghyll.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016
See, there they are—there beyond the ghyll on the mere side of yon big bowder.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
A beck plunged down the hillside with a muffled roar, and a building, half in light and half in shadow, occupied the hollow of the ghyll.
From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Bindloss, Harold
Dern means seclusion, and two or three miles up this ghyll is a farm-house bearing the name of Dernbrook House.
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by Wordsworth, William
All her relatives rode hard after them and came up with them in this ghyll.
From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold
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