A water channel or stream, particularly in mining or agricultural contexts; also a variant of 'ghoul.'
From Hindi 'gūl' (rose or flower) or possibly from Dutch 'goel,' referring to a channel or watercourse. In mining contexts, it refers to the open space left after ore extraction.
Mining 'gool' spaces created unexpected caverns that miners had to navigate carefully, and some of these became sources of folktales about underground creatures, possibly reinforcing the association with 'ghoul' in folk imagination!
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