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View synonyms for gulch

gulch

[ guhlch ]

noun

  1. a deep, narrow ravine, especially one marking the course of a stream or torrent.


gulch

/ ɡʌltʃ /

noun

  1. a narrow ravine cut by a fast stream


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gulch1

1825–35; compare British dialect gulch, gulsh to run with a full stream, gush, (of land) to sink in, Middle English gulchen to spew forth, gush; expressive word akin to gulp, gush, etc.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of gulch1

C19: of obscure origin

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Example Sentences

The group was found dead on Tuesday, a little more than a mile away from their vehicle, at the Devil’s Gulch area along the south fork of the Merced River, according to the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office.

The Dry Gulch fire joined with the Lick Creek fire on July 8 and the pair is currently being fought as one fire.

A creek runs through the gulch for part of the year and feeds into the Paria River, which in turn joins the Colorado River southwest of the Glen Canyon Dam.

Hold on, men who are already pecking out their nastygrams, mansplaining that the wage gap exists because moms stay home or go part-time while they raise your spawn, so that break in employment is actually what creates the Wage Gap Gulch.

But there turned out to be, if not a cliff, at least a gulch still embedded in the deal.

I don't mean to imply that doctors are all going to move to Galt's Gulch.

Technological vision and rivalry are so intertwined that local residents call the place Silicon Gulch.

They found the half-breed cooking some bacon over a tiny fire, at the head of a gulch that was just made for human concealment.

Avoiding the road, the half-breed made his way to a gulch near the ranch, where he tied his horse.

We had followed the spur track up the gulch for maybe a short quarter of a mile when we came to the engine.

That siding is part of an old 'Y' at the mouth of a gulch that runs back into the mountains for maybe a dozen miles or so.

Tarbell nodded without breaking his monotonous repetition of the Crow Gulch call.

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