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Definition of Ghyll
1. n. A ravine. See Gill a woody glen.
Definition of Ghyll
1. Noun. (''Scotland/Northern England'') A ravine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ghyll
1. a ravine [n -S] - See also: ravine
Medical Definition of Ghyll
1. A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghyll
Literary usage of Ghyll
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Prose Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth (1876)
"ghyll (1. 54). ' Brightens with water-brooks the hollow ghyll.' ghyll is also,
I believe, a term confined to this country; ghyll and dingle have the same ..."
2. Rock-climbing in the English Lake District by Owen Glynne Jones (1897)
"We could see the jammed boulders a little higher up in our ghyll. ... The opposite
wall of the ghyll looked hopelessly inaccessible, and we were little ..."
3. Literary Association of the English Lakes by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1906)
"CHAPTER VII GRASMERE: TONGUE ghyll: GRISEDALE TARN: HELVELLYN: WYTHBURN WORDSWORTH,
SCOTT, AND DAVY ON HELVELLYN : DEATH OF CHARLES COUGH : COLERIDGE'S ..."
4. McGuffey's Alternate First[-sixth] Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1887)
"... ghyll. Charlotte Mary Yonge was born in Hampshire, England, in 1823. She is
a voluminous writer of novels, biographical works, etc., all of which have a ..."
5. Pollard's Advanced Reader by Rebecca Smith Pollard, Isaac Thomas (1898)
"This lonely ravine is called Far Easedale, and at the upper end there formerly
stood a cottage named Blen- tarn ghyll. ghyll means a cleft worn in the rock ..."
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