The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goll \Goll\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
A hand, paw, or claw. [Obs.]
--Sir P. Sidney. B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context obsolete English) hand Etymology 2
n. (context euphemistic English) God
Wikipedia
Goll may refer to:
- Goll (surname)
- Goll, Wisconsin
- Goll mac Morna, a character from Irish mythology
- Goll, son of Garbh, of the Fomorians, early settlers in Ireland
- Göll, one of the minor Valkyries of Norse mythology
Goll is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Claire Goll (1890–1977), writer and journalist, wife of Yvan
- Heinz Goll (1934–1999), Austrian-born sculptor and painter
- Jacob Goll (born 1992), German ice hockey goaltender
- Yvan Goll (1891–1950), French-German expressionist and surrealist poet
- Goll Woods State Nature Preserve, named after Peter and Catherine Goll, 1836 emigrants from Grand Charmont, France
Usage examples of "goll".
Out of this treasure, and from the treasure of rings and bracelets and torques that were with him, Goll mac Morna paid Fergus for his songs, and, much as Fionn had given, Goll gave twice as much.
For at that table Goll should not have given greater gifts than his master and host did.
And it was not right of Goll to take by force the position of greatest gift-giver of the Fianna, for there was never in the world one greater at giving gifts, or giving battle, or making poems than Fionn was.
But perhaps it was suppressed out of delicacy for Fionn, for if Goll could be accused of ostentation, Fionn was open to the uglier charge of jealousy.
Not even a call was necessary, for Goll felt in his heart when Fionn was threatened, and he would leave Fionn's own brother only half-killed to fly where his arm was wanted.
He was never thanked, of course, for although Fionn loved Goll he did not like him, and that was how Goll felt towards Fionn.
It was a hard and a tricky fight, and Goll won it by bravery and strategy and great good luck.
The third hag, however, had managed to get behind Goll, and she leaped on to his back with the bound of a panther, and hung here with the skilful, many-legged, tight-twisted clutching of a spider.
But at that terrible sight Goll mae Morna blushed deeply and leaped from the ground.
But into that din and encirclement Goll pressed and ventured, steady as a rock in water, agile as a creature of the sea, and when one of the combatants retreated it was the hag that gave backwards.
At his Right hand his son Art, to be afterwards as famous as his famous father, took his seat, and on his left Goll mor mac Morna, chief of the Fianna of Ireland, had the seat of honour.
Art og mac Morna of the Hard Strokes fell to biting his fingers, Cona'n the Swearer and Garra mac Morna grumbled irritably to each other and at their neighbours, even Caelte, the son of Rona'n, looked down into his own lap, and Goll Mor sipped at his wine without any twinkle in his eye.
The sureties to this bargain were Caelte mac Ronan, Goll mac Morna, and Lugaidh.