ghyll
Britishnoun
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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
There was one gap in the furze at the mouth of a tributary ghyll.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
He had come down the side of the ghyll, and had entered the house from behind.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
Light, scantily nourished trees, sycamore or mountain-ash, climbed the green sides of the ghyll, and framed the woman's form.
From Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward
They had reached a point of the high moor which overlooked Thor ghyll.
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
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