gulch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++gulch /ɡʌltʃ/ noun [countable] American English SGa narrow deep valley formed in the past by flowing water, but usually dry now 〔过去由流水冲刷形成，但现在通常已干涸的〕峡谷，沟壑
Examples from the Corpus
gulch• Crawling at a walk up the darkening gulch, they ate.• We followed down along the dry gulch, and what we saw was terrible.• The soldiers had followed along the gulch, as they ran, and murdered them in there.• She forgot the excitement down below, she forgot the misunderstanding that had kept them silent down the gulch.• It's a long way down into the gulch.Origin gulch (1800-1900) Perhaps from gulch “to swallow” ((13-19 centuries))gulch nounChinese
narrow formed in Corpus by flowing past the valley a deep
gulch
gulch /ɡʌltʃ/
noun [countable] American English
gulch /ɡʌltʃ/
noun [countable] American English Date: 1800-1900
Origin: Perhaps from gulch 'to swallow' (13-19 centuries)
a narrow deep valley formed in the past by flowing water, but usually dry now
Origin: Perhaps from gulch 'to swallow' (13-19 centuries)