gool dial.
Also 6, 9 goole, 6 goule, 8 goal.
[a. AF. gole, goule (a specific use of OF. gole, goule throat; cf. OF. goulet narrow channel, trench). See also gole, gull.]
1. A small stream, a ditch; an outlet for water, a sluice.
| 1552 Huloet, Goole, emissarium. 1583 Inquisition Sewers 4 (in N.W. Linc. Gloss.), Thomas Staveley shall make one sufficient stathe at the south side of his goule. 1674–91 Ray N.C. Words, Gool, a ditch. Lincolnshire. 1825 Heber Narr. Journ. (1828) I. 606 Raising water to the ‘gools’ (small channels) which convey its rills to their fields. |
| fig. 1542 Bowes & Elleker Surv. in Hodgson Northumbld. iii. II. 229 The..fortresses of carrowe & sewynge⁓shealles..stande in suche a Goole passage & common entery of all the theves..of Liddisdale [etc.]. |
2. (See
quot. 1706, and
cf. gull n. and v.)
| 1664–5 Act 16 & 17 Car. II, c. 11 §7 If any Goole or Gooles, Breach or Breaches, Overflowing or Overflowings of waters shall happen at any time hereafter to be in over or through any of the said Bancks. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Gool (Statute Law-Word), a Breach in a Bank or Sea-Wall; a passage worn by the ebbing and flowing of the Tide. 1723–8 P. Blair Pharmaco-Bot. i. (1733) 20, I have collected the specimens of no less than eighteen [species] from the Goals all along the sea coast towards Wibberton. 1832 Holderness Drainage Act 36 If..any sudden breach or goole may be made in..the east bank. 1848 in Wharton Law Lex. |