A ravine or valley with steep sides, usually forming the bed of a stream or torrent.

A precipitous or hanging descent; a craggy or rugged steep; a precipice, cliff, or scaur; most commonly, one overhanging a river or the sea.

A narrow pass or gorge between mountains; a defile, ravine. Obsolete.

A deep rocky cleft or ravine, usually wooded and forming the course of a stream.

A yawning chasm or abyss; an opening in the earth produced by an earthquake or volcanic action; a vast ravine or gorge. a fiery gulf, gulf of fire…

A breach or fissure made by a torrent; a gully, chasm; a channel made by a stream. Obsolete exc. dialect.

A break or opening in a range of mountains; a pass or gorge (very common in U.S.).

A deep hollow or valley: in Old English charters; not known in Middle English but occurring from the 16th cent. in the general sense of valley, and…

A gorge, defile, pass; a gully or ravine; a narrow passage. ? Obsolete or dialect.

Originally Scottish. An angle, gap, or pass between two hills.

A deep trench, a ravine.

A channel or ravine worn in the earth by the action of water, esp. in a mountain or hill side.

A watercourse, river-bed, or ravine; a drain or channel for rain- or floodwater. Cf. khor, n.

A deep narrow gorge or cleft, esp. one formed by erosion by running water. Also figurative.

A deep ravine with precipitous sides.

In South Africa: A deep narrow valley; a ravine or gorge between mountains.

A deep narrow gorge or cleft; = ravine, n. 2.

Chiefly U.S. A pass or gorge in a mountain range through which a stream passes. Cf. wind-gap n. at wind, n.1 compounds 2.

A narrow opening between hills; a ravine with rocky walls, esp. one that gives passage to a stream.

A usually dry, steep-sided gully formed by the action of fast-flowing water in an arid or semi-arid region, esp. in the south-western United States…

In South America and the south-western United States: a ravine.

In Spain: the dry bed of a temporary or transitory stream, often used as a road; a ravine, usually a waterless one.

U.S., etc. A deep narrow channel or ravine with a stream running through it.

A precipice, a ravine with precipitous sides.

Chiefly in the south-western United States: a narrow valley or gully; a ravine or small canyon.

A narrow and deep ravine, with steep sides, marking the course of a torrent; esp. one containing a deposit of gold.

A deep gorge or ravine at the bottom of which a river or stream flows between high and often vertical sides; a physical feature characteristic of…

= cañon, n.3

A deep ravine or chasm; a precipitous cleft or descent in a hillside.

A steep gorge or gully on a mountain side: first used in reference to the Alps (see quot. 1856).

U.S. An angular valley cut into a hillside or mountainside; a ravine, gully. Also: a small stream or creek.

a steep-sided canyon with a comparatively flat bottom, typically closed off at one end by a rock wall or other natural feature.

A gully, a ravine. Cf. sike, n.1 1b.

A gorge or defile in north-western Pakistan.

English regional. A gap in sand dunes through which a road passes to the shore.