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noun - a narrow, steep-sided valley
GHYLL - A gill or ghyll is a ravine or narrow valley in the North of England and other parts of the United Kingdom. The word originates from the Old Norse gi...
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| Wooded ravine |
| Narrow mountain stream |
| Ravine; mountain stream |
| Wooded glen |
| Glen taking a breather, we hear? |
| Northern ravine |
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| A ravine. |
| The paired respiratory organ of fish and some amphibians, by which oxygen is extracted from water flowing over surfaces within or attached to the walls of the pharynx. |
| The vertical plates arranged radially on the underside of mushrooms and many toadstools. |
| The wattles or dewlap of a domestic fowl. |
| Gut or clean (a fish). |
| Catch (a fish) in a gill net. |
| A unit of liquid measure, equal to a quarter of a pint. |
| A deep ravine, especially a wooded one. |
| A narrow mountain stream. |
| A female ferret. |
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A gill or ghyll is a ravine or narrow valley in the North of England and other parts of the United Kingdom. The word originates from the Old Norse gil. Examples include Dufton Ghyll Wood, Dungeon Ghyll, Troller's Gill and Trow Ghyll. As a related usage, Gaping Gill is the name of a cave, not the associated stream, and Cowgill, Masongill and Halton Gill are derived names of villages.The stream flowing through a gill is often referred to as a beck: for example in Swaledale, Gunnerside Beck flows through Gunnerside Ghyll. Beck is also used as a more general term for streams in the north of England examples include Ais Gill Beck and Arkle Beck. In the North Pennines, the word sike or syke is found in similar circumstances. This is particularly common in the Appleby Fells area where sikes significantly outnumber the becks and gills; it can also be seen in the name of Eden Sike Cave in Mallerstang. * In the High Weald gills are deeply cut ravines, usually with a stream in the base which erode |