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gulch

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Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

gulchn. 
  •  Act of gulching or gulping.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A glutton.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a gully.  [1913 Webster]
gulchv. t. [OE. gulchen; cf. dial. Sw. gölka to gulch, D. gulzig greedy, or E. gulp.].
     To swallow greedily; to gulp down.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gulch, n. US a ravine, esp. one in which a torrent flows.

Etymology
perh. dial. gulch to swallow

THESAURUS

gulch

abysm, abyss, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, box canyon, breach, break, canal, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, creek bed, crevasse, crevice, culvert, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, dry bed, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulf, gully, gullyhole, headrace, hole, incision, irrigation ditch, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, race, ravine, rent, rift, rime, river bed, riverway, runnel, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, sluice, spillbox, spillway, split, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, trench, valley, void, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks

ROGET THESAURUS

gulch

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.


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