Crossword clues for nullah
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nullah \Nul"lah\, n. [Hind. n[=a]l[=a], fr. Skr. n[=a]la tube.]
A water course, esp. a dry one; a gully; a gorge; -- orig. an
East Indian term.
--E. Arnold.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A stream. 2 The dry bed of a small stream. 3 A gorge or ravine. 4 (context Hong Kong English) A concrete-lined channel designed to allow rapid run off of storm water from high ground, to prevent flooding of urbanised coastal areas.
WordNet
n. a ravine or gully in southern Asia
Wikipedia
A nullah or nulla ( or "nallah" in Punjabi) is an 'arm of the sea', stream, or watercourse, a steep narrow valley. Like the wadi of the Arabs, the nullah is characteristic of mountainous or hilly country where there is little rainfall. In the drier parts of India and Pakistan, and in many parts of Australia, there are small steep-sided valleys penetrating the hills, clothed with rough brushwood or small trees growing in the stony soil. During occasional heavy rains, torrents rush down the nullahs and quickly disappear. There is little local action upon the sides, while the bed is lowered, and consequently these valleys are narrow and steep. In cities on the Delhi plain in India, nullahs are concrete or brick-lined ditches about deep and wide, used to divert monsoon rain away from the cities.
In Hong Kong, a nullah is typically a concrete-lined channel designed to allow rapid run off of storm water from high ground, to prevent flooding of urbanised coastal areas.
Nullah or Nulla may refer to:
- Nullah, a narrow valley.
- Waddy, or nulla nulla, an aboriginal war club.
- Cronulla, New South Wales, nicknamed "Nulla".
- Nullar number, see grammatical number.
- An unofficial Roman numeral for zero
Usage examples of "nullah".
On the left side of this wood--that is, the left side to the advancing troops--there stretched a long nullah or hollow, which ran perpendicularly to the hill, and served rather as a conductor of bullets than as a cover.
In the meanwhile the attention of Generals Buller and Clery had been called to the desperate position of the guns, and they had made their way to that further nullah in the rear where the remaining limber horses and drivers were.
He scanned the ridgetops that overlooked the road, checked the woodless dells and nullahs where groups of men might hide.
I kicked a hole in the soft earth the foothold gave way, and I was just contemplating going forward and getting on to the bank where the nullah Rattened out, when a fusillade of shots followed by shouting broke out in the direction of the camp.
He grasped his nullah more firmly, and with one hand parting the leptospermums before him he decided just when to strike the blow.
Indeed the only real opening in the whole chain of defences was between that place and Sheria, the Turks no doubt trusting to the exceptionally difficult country, which hereabouts was a maze of small wadis and nullahs, to prevent any attempt at a break through.
It had a fascination for him, this narrow track, winding among the boulders and curving up the nullahs, for he remembered how in the map it had gone on and on, stretching away into the unknown heart of Africa.
At this point a great cloud of mounted Ghazis suddenly came yelling out of a nullah in the hillside, and rode into the mob, cutting down everything in their way, soldiers and civilians, and made off with a couple of Anquetil's guns before he could stop them.
I put my head down and fairly flew - a fountain of dirt rose up just ahead of me as a cannon-shot from somewhere ploughed into the nullah hank, and the last thing I remember is the horse rearing up, and something smashing into my left arm with a blinding pain.
The nullahs ran together into a couple of deeper gorges that cut through a slight depression choked with denser growth, cycad, and screw pine.