Gully
['gʌlɪ] or ['ɡʌli]
Definition
(noun.) deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour).
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Definition
(n.) A large knife.
(n.) A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.
(n.) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
(v. t.) To wear into a gully or into gullies.
(v. i.) To flow noisily.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gulch, ravine, CREVASSE.
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Definition
n. (Scot.) a big knife.—Also Gull′ey.
n. a channel worn by running water: a ditch: a ravine.—v.t. to wear a gully or channel in.—p.adj. Gull′ied.—ns. Gull′y-hole a manhole into a drain &c.; Gull′y-hunt′er one who picks up things from gutters.
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Examples
- Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- An hour later found us in the time-rounded gullies of the hills, amid the beautiful flowering plants that abound in the arid waste places of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- As there is a succession of gullies, cut out by rains along the side of the ridge, the line was necessarily very irregular. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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