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Definition of Gilgai
1. Noun. (Australia) A small concavity or depression between ridges, where rainwater gathers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gilgai
1. a natural reservoir [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gilgai
Literary usage of Gilgai
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"gilgai seems to be the result of the "self plowing" of black, ... Some features
considered man-made ridged fields may actually be gilgai soils, ..."
2. A Short and Plain Exposition of the Old Testament, with Devotional and by Job Orton (1805)
"7 So Joshua ascended from gilgai, he, and all the people of war with him ...
Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, [and] went up from gilgai all night. ..."
3. Outlines of Bible geography, physical and political by William Garden Blaikie (1861)
"gilgai.—Gllgal was the name of the place of encampment of the Israelites,
immediately after they ... The tabernacle had its'first resting-place at gilgai. ..."
4. Report by New South Wales Dept. of Education (1879)
"... Blackville, Rose Hill, Attunga, Fernhill, Little Plain, Hanging Rock, gilgai
and Cockburn River hav.e been granted or promised by the Government, ..."
5. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"... which dwell in the champaign over against gilgai, beside the plains of Moreh
V" Here the mention of Gilgal, which was in the valley of the ..."
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