gillbeer (jilber)

Malt liquor medicated Icel. gil , a deep narrow glen, with a stream at the bottom; cf. geil , a ravine: see gilll .] 1. A narrow valley; a ravine, especially one with a rapid stream running through it. The word is in common use in the lake district of England: as, Dungeon Gill , Gillin -Grove. In northwestern Yorkshire the valleys are called dales and gills . As he glode thurgh the gille by a gate syde, There met he tho men that I mynt first. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 13529. Pursuing the course of this brook upwards, you come to a narrow sequestered valley sheltered from all winds, thro' which it runs murmuring among great stones; you may continue along this gill . Gray, To Dr. Warton, Sept. 14, 1765. Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll . Words worth Langdale Pike and Witch's Lair And Dungeon- Ghyll so foully rent. Cole ridge, Christ a bel, i., Conclusion. 2. A corrugation or fold; a hollow, as in a sheet of metal.