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Cricket fielding position
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gully
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A gully is a small valley. Gully may also refer to: A storm drain Gully, a fielding position in the sport of cricket; see slip Gully cricket , an informal form of cricket, played in India Gully, the mascot of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Gully, Minnesota ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gully \Gul"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gullied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gullying .] To wear into a gully or into gullies.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. 2 A small valley. 3 (context UK English) A drop kerb. 4 A road drain. 5 (context cricket English) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"channel made by running water," 1650s, possibly a variant of Middle English golet "water channel" (see gullet ). Gully-washer , American English colloquial for "heavy rainstorm," attested by 1887.
Usage examples of gully.
Tuesday, November 1 2010 hours Hill country north of Chah Bahar Iran Joe Douglas looked at Franklin where he lay in the shelter on the side of the gully.
Roger ropes up, confirms the signals for the belay, starts up the gully.
In fact, this third island was actually two separate land masses, but the gully was only ten metres wide, and the map still referred to it as Kerkulla Besar, meaning Big Kerkulla.
Mivarsh, bethinking him that if the mantichores of the mountains should devour him along with those two lords, that were yet a kindlier fate than all alone to abide those things he wist of on the Moruna, put on the rope, and after commending himself to the protection of his gods followed Lord Brandoch Daha down the rotten slopes of rock and frozen earth at the head of a gully leading down the cliff.
But Echo and George companies had finally reached the bivouac areas that the recon platoons had found for them, scattered through two deep gullies and a patch of thick scrub forest where the two gullies met.
Green Gully, the fame of which was soon to be so widely bruited abroad.
Having seen Longarm disappear into the gully, the bushwhacker might be playing it safe.
He stayed absolutely still, watching the bushwhacker on the other side of the gully through a tiny gap in the screen of brush.
The northern shore was cliffy, and inland from the escarpments the forested hillside was broken by deep gullies.
Calumet chuckled grimly as, with his head slightly above the edge of the gully and concealed behind the felloes of the wagon wheel, he made an examination of the rocks beyond the wagon.
And he went on to explain how the bed of Ice Cold Creek swung away into a narrow valley with benched sides, and at the point where it swung away an old stream bed came in from the right that was all boulders, the mountain beyond gashed by a slide that had opened up a gully big as Hastings Street in the middle of Vancouver .
Though bound and gagged, the gully dwarf found some way to moan pathetically as Gell and Typak entered.
And now Chief Huerta was the night, a black shadow among shadows, edging silently under the fence through the runoff gully.
Beyond, out of gullies and flats that had been hidden from us, but not from the quickening sun, over reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view, hurrying tumultuously to take advantage of the brief day in which it must flower and fruit and seed again and die.
When she had resumed her seat, Hyn and Hynyn trotted out of the gully to continue their journey.