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Definition of Gully
1. Noun. Deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour).
Definition of Gully
1. n. A large knife.
2. n. A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.
3. v. t. To wear into a gully or into gullies.
4. v. i. To flow noisily.
Definition of Gully
1. Noun. a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside. ¹
2. Noun. a small valley ¹
3. Noun. (United Kingdom) A drop kerb ¹
4. Noun. A road drain ¹
5. Noun. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position ¹
6. Verb. (obsolete) To flow noisily. ¹
7. Noun. (qualifier Scotland and northern UK) A large knife. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gully
1. to form ravines by the action of water [v -LIED, -LYING, -LIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gully
Literary usage of Gully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"therapeutic Means,'8vo, London, 1885, edited, with a preface, by the author's
son, William Court gully, QC, MP With W. Macleod he edited vol. i. of the ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham (1828)
"William Slade gully made his will, and thereby devised the next avoidance to
Plaintiffs; ... WS gully died. Sth April 1825. Samuel Thomas gully proved will, ..."
3. A Record of the Mines of South Australia by Henry Yorke Lyell Brown (1887)
"SIMMONS' LEAD lies between the heads of Spike gully and Two-Speck gully. It is
evidently a continuation of White Lead. RED HILL LEAD, between Two-Speck and ..."
4. The Adventures of a Seventeen-year-old Lad and the Fortunes He Might Have Won by John Grandison Williams (1894)
"The gold was in large nuggets, as was the case at Bullock gully. ... We started
for Donkey Woman's gully, arriving in due time. We camped at the head of the ..."
5. The English Home by Banister Fletcher, Herbert Phillips Fletcher (1910)
"100 shows a channel shoe and gully trap, ir which the waste water from a bath,
rain-water pipe and lavatory is discharged by means of a three-way head into ..."
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