gullyn.1
/ˈɡʌli/, U.S. /ˈɡəli/ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [noun]
rakeeOE
cudeOE
weasanda1000
chelc1000
throatOE
garget13..
gorgec1390
oesophagusa1398
meria1400
oesophagea1400
swallowa1400
cannelc1400
gull1412
channelc1425
halsec1440
gully1538
encla?1541
stomach?1541
lane1542
weasand-pipe1544
throttlea1547
meat-pipe1553
gargil1558
guttur1562
cropc1580
gurgulio1630
gule1659
gutter lane1684
red lane1701
swallow-pipe1786
neck1818
gullet-pipe1837
foodway1904
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Gurgulio, the gully or gargylle of the throote or throote bolle.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Gullet, gullye or gargle of the throte.
2.
a. A channel or ravine worn in the earth by the action of water, esp. in a mountain or hill side.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine
cloughc1330
heugha1400
straitc1400
gillc1440
gulfa1533
gull1553
gap1555
coomb1578
gullet1600
nick1606
goyle1617
gully1637
nullah1656
ravine1687
barrancaa1691
kloof1731
ravin1746
water gap1756
gorge1769
arroyo1777
quebrada1787
rambla1789
flume1792
linn1799
cañada1814
gulch1832
cañon1834
canyon1837
khud1837
couloir1855
draw1864
box canyon1869
sitch1888
tangi1901
opena1903
1637 Rhode Island Colony Rec. 28 To run uppon a streight line from a fresh spring being in the Gulley.
1648 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1899) XV. 21 The South-east corner is bounded with a gully and a white Oake tree.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 49 There were many gullies in the way, which were impassable.
1670 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1892) I. 15 Eighty Ackors of this land beginning betweene two Gulleys which Jshu into the aforsaid west River.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 85 Gullies made by the Water.
1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 124 Fossil shells..have been found on the sides, or rather in the gullies of the mountains.
a1798 J. Belknap Belknap Papers (1877) II. 394 The N.W. wind blows it [snow] over the tops of the mountains, and drives it into the long deep vallies or gullies.
1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. x. 29 Torrents, down the gullies flung, Join'd the rude river that brawl'd on.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 29 Hills of dark heath, intersected by deep gullies.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxiv. 494 The mountain torrents had worn gullies some thirty or forty feet deep.
1868 A. P. Stanley Hist. Mem. Westm. Abbey i. 5 The Walebrook..rushed with such violence down its gulley.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 49 Ascending the steep sides of these gullys.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 109 A wild, red, stony gully in the mountains.
b. transferred. A furrow, groove.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow
furrowc1374
groopc1440
regal1458
rat1513
slot?1523
gutter1555
chamfer1601
channel1611
fluting1611
furrowing1611
rita1657
denervation1657
rigol1658
groove1659
riggota1661
rake1672
stria1673
champer1713
cannelure1755
gully1803
channelure1823
flute1842
rill1855
droke1880
1803 C. Hatchett in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 143 I found..that little furrows or gullies were soon worn in them.
c. In extended meaning (see quots. 1871, 1966). Australian and New Zealand.
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1840 F. Mathew Founding of N.Z. (1940) ii. 48 Crossing a deep and broken gully, the sides of which are so precipitous that [etc.].
1840 N.Z. Jrnl. 19 245/1 The timber grows principally in the gullies between the hills and mountains.
1846 C. Rowcroft Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land I. xi. 109 By this time they had descended into a deep and narrow gulley.
1856 A. S. Atkinson Jrnl. 10 May in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 218 Colson asked Hinde £300 for his 37½ acres of gulley.
1862 H. Kendall Poems & Songs 17 The gums in the gully stand gloomy and stark.
1871 C. L. Money Knocking about in N.Z. i. 9 ‘Gully’ means nothing more than a strip of ground lying between two hills, and having a ‘creek’ flowing down its centre.
1875 S. Wood & H. Lapham Waiting for Mail 16 The terrible blasts that rushed down the narrow gully, as if through a funnel.
1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. i. 16 Pandanus aquaticus marks the courses and curves of some of the gullies.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxvii. 230 For six months they had to live in this little gully—as barren as a stone quarry and not unlike it to look at.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs iv. 66 Harper's Homestead was on the property which belonged to Mrs. Dunlop, but further up the gully than the present house.
1938 R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 63 They were winding along the side of a deep gully.
1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. iii. 57 The word valley has fallen from use in Australia and is not very common in New Zealand except in a few place-names. It is replaced by gully.
d. Cricket. The fielding position between point and the slips; the fieldsman in this position. Also (Australian) gully-slip.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > [noun] > fielding position > specific
bat's end1742
midwicket1744
middle wicket1772
long-stop1773
long field?1801
third man1801
point1816
slip1816
backstop1819
cover1836
long field on1837
short stopc1837
long on1843
middle-on1843
short leg1843
cover-point1846
square leg1849
long off1854
mid-off1865
leg slip1869
mid-on1870
cover-slip1891
box1911
gully1920
1920 G. L. Jessop in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) iv. 165 The position which has been favoured in recent years by fast bowlers, whenever signs of the wicket bumping have been apparent, namely, ‘the gully’.
1921 P. F. Warner My Cricketing Life xii. 229 He [sc. A. O. Jones] was, indeed, quite exceptional as a fieldsman in any position, but especially in the slips and at short third man, or in the ‘gully’, as it is called nowadays.
1927 Observer 19 June 25/1 Macaulay fell to a dazzling left-hand catch high up in the gully by Kidd.
1954 J. H. Fingleton Ashes crown Year 43 Morris..found himself caught high at gully-slip.
1955 Times 12 July 12/4 Ralph was indeed unlucky, for Arnold with good intentions of not wasting time, cut him straight into gully's hands, when exit followed entry.
1955 Times 15 July 3/3 At 252 Insole was caught in the gully slashing at Titmus.
1970 Times 19 Aug. 6/2 He was fortunate now to edge Wilson only just wide of Fletcher in the gully.
3. A narrow and deep artificial watercourse; a deep gutter, drain, or sink.
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1768 G. White Let. 27 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 52 The gullies that were cut for watering the meadows.
1882 Worcs. Exhib. Catal. iii. 16 Large street gullies.
1883 Times 21 Aug. 6/3 The watering of the streets and flushing of the gullies.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 2.)
gully-bottom n.
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1917 J. Masefield Old Front Line 49 He..tunnelled long living rooms, both above and below the gully-bottom.
1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon iv. 58 Finally you reached the gully-bottom.
b. (In sense 3.)
gully-emptier n.
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1929 Evening News 18 Nov. 16/4 Following a collision between an L.C.C. tramcar and a Fulham Borough Council gulley-emptier in the Fulham Palace~road, S.W., to-day, passengers in the tramcar received a showerbath from the contents of the gulley-emptier, which poured into the tramcar.
gully-grate n.
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1861 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (new ed.) 20 Water-closet, sink, or gully-grate.
gully-grating n.
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1905 Daily Chron. 7 Aug. 6/5 Volumes of steam issued through the gully grating.
gully-trap n.
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1892 T. B. F. Eminson Epidemic Pneumonia 36 The sewer..had been opened to put down a gully-trap.
gully-wind n.
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1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene 280 When there are marsh or gully winds to be avoided.
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gully-drain n. (see quot.; hence gully-drainage, gully-drain vb.).
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > gutter in a street > piping connecting side of street to sewer
gully-drain1850
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iii. 17 The very gully-drains.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 398/2 The Gully-drain is a drain generally of earthen-ware piping, curving from the side of the street to an opening in the top or side of the sewer, and is the means of communication between the sewer and the gully-hole.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 399/2 The old street channels for gully drainage.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 401/1 Taking only 1200 miles of public way as gully-drained.
gully erosion n. the erosion of soil by rainwater forming channels.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun] > soil erosion
gulling1567
soil erosion1896
sheet erosion1917
gully erosion1928
truncation1941
1928 Proc. 1st. Internat. Congr. Soil Sci. VI. 755 That phase of normal gully erosion which gradually cuts out V-shaped ravines usually not excessively deep.
1937 E. J. Russell Soil Conditions & Plant Growth (ed. 7) viii. 579 The erosion takes two forms: sheet erosion, which goes on slowly and evenly over a large area, and gulley erosion, which is more localised and washes out the soil into great gulleys or ravines.
gully-hole n. the opening from the street into a drain or sewer.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > gutter in a street > the opening from the street into a drain or sewer
gully-hole1726
1726 Kersey's Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Gully-Hole, a Place at the Grate or Entrance of the Street-Canals for a Passage into the Common Shore.
1746 Brit. Mag. 346 The Water is let down out of the Street, by what we call the Gully-Hole.
1762 Gentleman's Mag. (1806) Apr. 154/1 Mrs Myltystre was hanged, and thrown into the gully-hole to rot.
a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 192 The boys from that house were in the habit of playing every day in a yard, in which there were gully-holes leading from the sewer.
gully-raker n. Australian (a) a cattle-thief; (b) a cattle-whip.
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1847 Settlers & Convicts xii. 261 This practice derives its name from the circumstances of cattle straying..into the bush..and breeding there..the gully-rakers eventually driving them out and branding [them]..with their own brands.
1881 A. C. Grant Bush-life in Queensland (1882) iv. 30 The driver appealing occasionally to some bullock or other by name, following up his admonition by a sweeping cut of his ‘gully-raker’.
gully-raking n. cattle-thieving.
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1847 Settlers & Convicts xii. 253 By a process technically called ‘gully-raking’, he had quadrupled the little herd his father gave him.
gully-squall n. Nautical a violent gust of wind from the mountain ravines of Central America.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of > types of
rebuff1667
thunder-gust?1748
gully-squall1867
rattle1872
sand-blast1898
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Gully squall. Well known off Tropical America in the Pacific, particularly abreast of the lakes of Leon, Nicaragua, &c.
gully-washer n. U.S. a heavy downpour.
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1903 J. Fox Little Shepherd iv. 59 Send us, not a gentle sizzle-sozzle, but a sod-soaker, a gully-washer. Give us a tide, O Lord!
1961 Amer. Speech 36 153 An old farmer looked at the threatening sky..and said, ‘It's goin' to be a gully washer and a chunk floater.’
1969 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 22 Aug. 4/6 Other two-word names for a heavy rain [are]..gully-washer, [etc.].
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gullyn.2
/ˈɡʌli/, U.S. /ˈɡəli/, Scottish English /ˈɡʌlɪ/ Scottish and northern.
a. A large knife. (The sense given in quot. 1653, if it existed, is obsolete.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > large knife
panade1340
whittle1404
colknyfea1500
butcher's knife1557
gully1582
gully-knife1725
whittle-knife1736
cane knife1798
wood-knife1880
panga1929
1582 A. Melville in W. Morison Melville (1898) v. 46 [Spoke of the King's claim to spiritual authority as a ‘bludie gullie’ thrust into the Commonwealth].
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxvii. 129 Can you tell with what instruments they did it? with faire gullies [printed gullics], which are little hulchback't demi-knives, the iron toole whereof is two inches long, and the wooden handle one inch thick, and three inches in length, wherewith the little boyes in our countrey cut ripe walnuts in two. [The description is in the original; the French word is gouet.]
1691 J. Ray Catal. N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 135 A Gully, a large household Knife.
?1719 A. Ramsay in A. Ramsay & W. Hamilton Familiar Epist. 21 Cæsar July..'midst his Glories sheath'd his Gooly, And kiss'd his Wife.
1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook ix, in Poems (new ed.) 58 I red ye weel, tak care o' skaith, See, there 's a gully!
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 120 Folk kill wi' the tongue as weel as wi' the hand—wi' the word as weel as wi' the gulley!
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. i. 20 The poor simple bairn..had nae mair knowledge of the wickedness of human nature than a calf has of a flesher's gully.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Gulley, a large knife used in farm houses, principally to cut bread, cheese, &c. for the family. Perhaps originally a butcher's, for the gullet.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island v. xxiii. 185 I..took out my gully..and cut one strand after another.
b. attributive, as gully-knife.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > large knife
panade1340
whittle1404
colknyfea1500
butcher's knife1557
gully1582
gully-knife1725
whittle-knife1736
cane knife1798
wood-knife1880
panga1929
1725 Willie Winkie's Test. in A. Whitelaw Bk. Sc. Song (1875) 540/1 A gullie-knife and a horse-wand.
1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist vi. 102 He had neither his gun nor even his gully knife with him.
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gullyn.3
An iron tram-plate or -rail.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road laid with parallel planks, slabs, or rails > [noun] > laid with rails > rail
rail?1608
turn-plate1797
gully1800
plate rail1801
plate1807
tram-plate1807
tramway plate1825
track-rail1877
1800 Trans. Soc. Arts 18 271 These waggon-ways are supplied with iron rails, or gullies, laid on sleepers.
1841 S. C. Brees Gloss. Civil Engin. Gullies, a term sometimes applied to iron tram-plates or rails.
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gullyn.4
/ˈɡʌli/, U.S. /ˈɡəli/ Originally and chiefly Indian English.
A narrow passage between buildings; a lane or alley.Also used in this sense in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun] > between buildings
twitchenOE
chare12..
shut1300
alley1360
entryc1405
wyndc1425
vennel1435
trance1545
row1599
ginnel1669
ruelle1679
gangway1785
pend close1819
ope1825
jitty1836
scutchell1847
gully1849
bolt1855
opeway1881
snicket1898
jigger1902
jowler1961
1849 Allen's Indian Mail 31 Aug. 523/2 The new superintendent of police has..[arrested] the keeper of a sort of hotel in Banstollah gully..on a charge of gambling.
1861 Times of India 30 July 2/5 The man lay sleeping on a cot in a gulley.
1872 Bombay High Court Rep. 8 Orig. Civil Jurisdict. 69 There was a galli on the west side of the house..and..the entrance to the galli from the street..was through a gate.
1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iii. 87 A narrow, sordid, little gully, chockful of rubbish.., bordered by tall, three-storied houses.
1988 A. Ghosh Shadow Lines (1989) 39 A perfect Puja day, with the clear October sunlight lying golden in the galis.
2001 C. Chinn & S. Thorne Proper Brummie (2002) 96 Gulley, an entry, alleyway or passage between terrace houses.
2017 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 20 Feb. Our government has started a scheme last year to lay pucca roads and gullies in all villages and towns of the state.
2019 @kmscattergood 28 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My mom says a ‘gully’ is a rough footpath between houses. But it seems that's only true in B[irming]ham!
Compounds
gully cricket n. an informal variety of cricket played on the street.
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1980 Himmat 15 Feb. 17/2 Like the other children in his locality, young Patil started his game playing ‘galli-cricket’ (cricket in the city's lanes).
1994 India-West (Electronic ed.) 23 Sept. c49 India has a unique cricket culture. In that country, gully cricket has raised many a star.
2016 A. Waterhouse Cricket Made Simple 57 The cities of India and Pakistan play host to countless games of gully cricket or tape ball in their long narrow streets.
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gullyv.
/ˈɡʌli/, U.S. /ˈɡəli/ transitive. To make gullies or deep channels in; to form (channels) by the action of water. Also with out.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > erode [verb (transitive)] > cut channels or holes
gull1577
rout1726
wash1766
scour1773
gully1775
erode1830
gorge1849
ravine1858
ream1859
channel1862
canyon1878
to plough out1886
cañon1889
incise1893
runnel1920
1775 H. Knox in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 87 Without sledding, the roads are so much gullied, that it will be impossible to move a step.
1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 11 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 245 The road in many places was gullied several feet deep in this stone.
1851 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad xxiii. 430 The wintry torrent collected, had broken away [part] of the road, and gullied the whole place.
1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. iii. 604 Turf protects earthy slopes from the action of rills that would gully out a bare surface.
1882 Harper's Mag. Dec. 7 Stripped of soil and gullied by the action of rapid water.
1897 Outing 30 164/1 The current had gullied out deep holes around the big bowlders.
Derivatives
ˈgullying n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [noun] > cutting channel or hole
stream-cutting1626
gorging1833
outscour1883
incision1906
gullying1928
1928 Proc. 1st. Internat. Congr. Soil Sci. VI. 755 The same general class of wide-spread carving-out of the soil material or deep gullying that characterizes the devastation of Memphis.
1958 New Biol. 25 51 The flooding in Devon was associated with gullying and soil erosion and much of upland Britain is scarred with gullies similar to those formed so dramatically in 1953.
1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation i. 20 In contrast, the equatorial climate which is constantly hot and humid tends to remove soil by gullying.
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