Crossword clues for gulches
gulches
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Valley \Val"ley\, n.; pl. Valleys. [OE. vale, valeie, OF. val['e]e, valede, F. vall['e]e, LL. vallata, L. vallis, valles. See Vale.]
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The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
The valley of the shadow of death.
--Ps. xxiii. 4.Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
--Milton.Note: Deep and narrow valleys with abrupt sides are usually the results of erosion by water, and are called gorges, ravines, ca[~n]ons, gulches, etc.
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(Arch.)
The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a re["e]ntrant angle.
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The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
Valley board (Arch.), a board for the reception of the lead gutter in the valley of a roof. The valley board and lead gutter are not usual in the United States.
Valley rafter, or Valley piece (Arch.), the rafter which supports the valley.
Valley roof (Arch.), a roof having one or more valleys. See Valley, 2, above.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of gulch English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: gulch)
Usage examples of "gulches".
It ended on the rim of a wide and shallow valley edged on its farther side with broken hills, drumlins that scattered in a hundred directions, the gulches between all wide and deep enough to hide a raiding party.
The horses are tired, and there's no point in struggling through these gulches in the dark.
When you get back into the bowl with the Ghilzai, hide them among the gulches and come down the ravine to the door with three or four men.
Ahead of them, to the west, the caliche sloped gently down again, pocked by dry gulches the size of ballparks.
I've been five days dragging what's left of our livelihood up dry gulches and down narrow old prospector's trails.
They were hornbow, crucicorn, palomanes—every common breed lay in the gulches and gullies amid the shattered stonework, whose ruin their combined weight had clearly caused.