gully

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: gul=ly

CIDE DICTIONARY

gully, n. [Etymol. uncertain].

 A large knife.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]

gully, n. [Formerly gullet.].

•  A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.  [1913 Webster]
•  A grooved iron rail or tram plate.  [1913 Webster]

Gully gut, a glutton. [Obs.] Chapman. -- Gully hole, the opening through which gutters discharge surface water.

gully, v. t. 

 To wear into a gully or into gullies.  [1913 Webster]

gully, v. i. 

 To flow noisily.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gully, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a water-worn ravine.
2 a deep artificial channel; a gutter or drain.
3 Austral. & NZ a river valley.
4 Cricket a the fielding position between point and slips. b a fielder in this position.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied)
1 form (channels) by water action.
2 make gullies in.

Idiom

gully-hole an opening in a street to a drain or sewer.

Etymology

F goulet bottle-neck (as GULLET)

THESAURUS

gully

abysm, abyss, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, box canyon, breach, break, canal, canalize, canyon, carve, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chisel, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, corridor, corrugate, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, creek bed, crevasse, crevice, crimp, culvert, cut, cwm, dado, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, dry bed, engrave, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, goffer, gorge, gouge, groove, gulch, gulf, gullyhole, headrace, hole, incise, incision, irrigation ditch, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, pleat, plow, rabbet, race, ravine, rent, rifle, rift, rime, river bed, riverway, runnel, rupture, rut, scissure, score, scratch, seam, slit, slot, sluice, spillbox, spillway, split, streak, stream bed, streamway, striate, swash, swash channel, tailrace, trench, trough, valley, void, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, wrinkle

ROGET THESAURUS

gully

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.

Concavity

N concavity, depression, dip, hollow, hollowness, indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna, excavation, strip mine, trough, honeycomb, cup, basin, crater, punch bowl, cell, socket, valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove, grot, grotto, alcove, cul-de- sac, gully, arch, bay, excavator, sapper, miner, honeycomb (sponge), depressed, alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing, favaginous, faveolate, favose, scyphiform, scyphose, concave, hollow, stove in, retiring, retreating, cavernous, porous, infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform, funnel shaped, bell shaped, campaniform, capsular, vaulted, arched.

Opening

N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.

Conduit

N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.