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Ravine with flash floods
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gulch
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gulch or The Gulch may refer to: Gulch , a deep V-shaped valley formed by erosion Gulch (horse) , a thoroughbred horse The Gulch (Atlanta) , a redevelopment district in Atlanta, Georgia The Gulch (Nashville) , a neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a narrow gorge with a stream running through it [syn: flume ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Crawling at a walk up the darkening gulch , they ate. ▪ It's a long way down into the gulch . ▪ She forgot the excitement down below, she forgot the misunderstanding that had kept them silent down the gulch . ▪ The soldiers had ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"deep ravine," 1832, American English, perhaps from obsolete or dialectal verb gulsh "sink in" (of land), "gush out" (of water), from Middle English gulchen "to gush forth; to drink greedily" (c.1200). Compare gulche-cuppe "a greedy drinker" (mid-13c.).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gulch \Gulch\, v. t. [OE. gulchen; cf. dial. Sw. g["o]lka to gulch, D. gulzig greedy, or E. gulp.] To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]
Usage examples of gulch.
True, she had to stay in Silver Gulch for three years, but, heck, it was worth a try.
Silver Gulch was surrounded by green fields, rolling hills, and a fast-flowing river.
Silver Gulch was little enough that John Snow could always take a few minutes from law enforcement to join them.
Just a gentle brush of his lips on hers, but it woke a tidal surge of physical memories and, she suspected, was registered and mentally recorded in the minds of every single Silver Gulch inhabitant present.
She should be able to find enough cowboys in Silver Gulch whom she could photograph so that Mica would be satisfied.
Damn, he was going to be the laughingstock of Silver Gulch but he had to have more money to make this work.
Silver Gulch tonight, thanks to the Silver Springs Spa and Healing Center.
After a few minutes of heavy rain, the gulch can become a raging waterway.
I could even see where the gulch came out on the other side of the hills.
Tobias and Simeon abandoned him in the gulch, with no horse, no gun, no nothing.
People said the Gulch was haunted, and he firmly believed every ghost story he had ever been told.
We are the wandering spirits of the Gloaming Gulch, murdered in the night by thieves and robbers.
I saw him was in the Gloaming Gulch, and he was surrounded by some angry ghosts.
Numa did not appear and the ape-man emerged at length into the open and stood erect, finding himself in a rocky cleft whose precipitous walls rose almost sheer on every hand, the tunnel from the gorge passing through the cliff and forming a passageway from the outer world into a large pocket or gulch entirely enclosed by steep walls of rock.
Except for the small passageway from the gorge, there was no other entrance to the gulch which was some hundred feet in length and about fifty in width and appeared to have been worn from the rocky cliff by the falling of water during long ages.