Definition of Coulee

1. n. A stream

Definition of Coulee

1. Noun. A stream. ¹

2. Noun. (geology) A lava flow. ¹

3. Noun. (American English) A deep gulch or ravine, frequently dry in summer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coulee

1. a small ravine [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coulee

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could of
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coulde
couldest
couldn't
couldn't've
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couldn't seem
couldn've
couldna
couldnae
couldst
coulee (current term)
coulees
coulibiac
coulibiacs
coulis
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coulisses
couloir
couloirs
coulomb
coulomb's force
coulomb's law
coulomb collision
coulomb ionisation

Literary usage of Coulee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memorial Volume of the Transcontinental Excursion of 1912 of the American by American geological society of New York, American Geographical Society (New York) (1915)
"Wir haben diesen unteren Teil der Grande coulee nicht besucht, wohl aber noch gerade den Beginn, den Ansatz der unteren coulee in dem Plateau von coulee ..."

2. California and the Far West: Suggestions for the Westbound Traveler by Kate Ethel Mary Dumbell (1914)
"The Grand coulee is a great dry gorge or canon, cut by the Columbia River when it was diverted from its course ages ago in the glacial period. ..."

3. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1902)
"THE coulee.BELT The coulee belt borders the Mouse and Des Lacs rivers on the west, and contains fifty-one coulees between the southeast corner of the county ..."

4. Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvels in the by William Makepeace Thayer (1887)
"GRAND coulee, W. T Stone monuments stand around, some tall and capped, others rising in sharp pinnacles — all seeming to belong to the same class of wonders ..."

5. The Worker and His Work: Readings in Present Day Literature Presenting Some by Stella Stewart Center (1920)
"I recall with especial clearness the events of that last threshing in the coulee—I was eight, my brother was six. For days we had looked forward to the ..."

6. A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland (1917)
"CHAPTER m The Home in the coulee OUR postoffice was in the village of Onalaska, situated at the mouth of the Black River, which came down out of the wide ..."

7. The Story of the North Star State by Daniel Everett Willard (1922)
"Here on the prairie, cutting through level wheat fields, is a coulee, a little valley having steep sides, growing wider down stream and narrower up stream, ..."

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