gooral

English

Noun

gooral (plural goorals)

1. Alternative form of goral
   • 1854, Frederick Markham, Shooting in the Himalayas‎^[1], page 43:

     Common in the lower and middle hills, the gooral where numerous affords very fair sport; but it requires a good cragsman to follow them in all places.

   • 1923, E. H. D. Sewell, The Log of a Sportsman‎^[2], page 123:

     I had some fine exercise as well as some pretty shooting when trying to get a good gooral trophy.

   • 1936, H. S. Wood, Glimpses of the Wild: An Observer's Notes and Anecdotes on the Wild Life of Assam‎^[3], page 84:

     They eat carrion, but do not hesitate to attack live animals, such as hares, foxes and gooral, a kind of capricorn very like the chamois. At Narkanda in the Simla Hills I actually saw a pair hunting gooral.

Anagrams

• gaolor, goolar