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单词 gulch
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Definition of gulch in English:

gulch

noun ɡʌltʃɡəltʃ
North American
  • A narrow and steep-sided ravine marking the course of a fast stream.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And it's entirely possible somebody dropped a cigarette at the bottom of the gulch here.
    • We walked on until we had a commanding view of the upper gulch and the crosses strung out in a long line.
    • An impressive mill was built on the lower slope of the mountain near the foot of the gulch.
    • Whiling away an afternoon at the beach, a vacation spent exploring creeks and gulches, or even an hour spent climbing a tree, teaches a child about his or her place in the world.
    • The axis was revolving to show gorse gullies, rocky gulches and biscuit-coloured eroded clay crusts.
    • The main drag is a gulch - the town's original name was Deadwood Gulch - that was much widened during an 1870s gold rush into a classic gunfighter main street lined with gambling saloons.
    • Timber on the mountainsides here grows in vertical stripes on the flanks between gulches where avalanches scour everything but the most flexible willows and young trees.
    • After a while, we crossed a dry gulch, Horse Creek, and turned off into a patch of Grasslands the Forest Service proposes to keep roadless.
    • Alder Gulch, discovered in May 1863, rendered prodigious amounts of placer gold-arguably the most ever extracted from a single gulch.
    • Here was that infamous swath of dry terrain that encompasses both prairie flats and jagged gulches as it stretches through the westernmost reaches of Nebraska and the Dakotas.
    • The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors of cliffs lining deep gulches and winding streams.
    • Painters settled along the Arroyo Seco, the picturesque gulch on the city's west side.
    • To be sure, there were times when lynch mobs operated in isolated mining camps, in out-of-the-way gulches, or on sparsely-settled ranchlands.
    • The day of the fire the thermometer reached a record ninety-seven degrees in Helena; it surely topped that in the narrow confines of the gulch about twenty-five miles to the north.
    • Other locations are the dark forests, deep gulches, old mines, bunkers and medieval strongholds.
    • The town of Deadwood is cradled in a narrow gulch between pine-covered bluffs in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
    • Hordes of ladybugs which commonly swarm along gulches of the Falls Trail in winter are not yet evident.
    • Gold seekers, speculators, freighters, merchants, and stockmen flooded the valleys, gulches, and creeks near the Continental Divide.
    • Panning gold in the gulches, poaching deer and other game, rounding up wild horses and mules for the packing plant, growing vegetables, cutting firewood, and bootlegging whiskey-all were honorable occupations during such hard times.
    Synonyms
    gorge, abyss, canyon, ravine, gully, gulf, pass, defile, couloir, crevasse, cleft, rift, rent

Origin

Mid 19th century: perhaps from dialect gulch 'to swallow'.

 
 

Definition of gulch in US English:

gulch

nounɡəltʃɡəlCH
North American
  • A narrow and steep-sided ravine marking the course of a fast stream.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Other locations are the dark forests, deep gulches, old mines, bunkers and medieval strongholds.
    • Whiling away an afternoon at the beach, a vacation spent exploring creeks and gulches, or even an hour spent climbing a tree, teaches a child about his or her place in the world.
    • We walked on until we had a commanding view of the upper gulch and the crosses strung out in a long line.
    • Hordes of ladybugs which commonly swarm along gulches of the Falls Trail in winter are not yet evident.
    • Painters settled along the Arroyo Seco, the picturesque gulch on the city's west side.
    • The main drag is a gulch - the town's original name was Deadwood Gulch - that was much widened during an 1870s gold rush into a classic gunfighter main street lined with gambling saloons.
    • The day of the fire the thermometer reached a record ninety-seven degrees in Helena; it surely topped that in the narrow confines of the gulch about twenty-five miles to the north.
    • The axis was revolving to show gorse gullies, rocky gulches and biscuit-coloured eroded clay crusts.
    • Alder Gulch, discovered in May 1863, rendered prodigious amounts of placer gold-arguably the most ever extracted from a single gulch.
    • The irregular houses were like the broken exteriors of cliffs lining deep gulches and winding streams.
    • Gold seekers, speculators, freighters, merchants, and stockmen flooded the valleys, gulches, and creeks near the Continental Divide.
    • To be sure, there were times when lynch mobs operated in isolated mining camps, in out-of-the-way gulches, or on sparsely-settled ranchlands.
    • After a while, we crossed a dry gulch, Horse Creek, and turned off into a patch of Grasslands the Forest Service proposes to keep roadless.
    • Panning gold in the gulches, poaching deer and other game, rounding up wild horses and mules for the packing plant, growing vegetables, cutting firewood, and bootlegging whiskey-all were honorable occupations during such hard times.
    • Here was that infamous swath of dry terrain that encompasses both prairie flats and jagged gulches as it stretches through the westernmost reaches of Nebraska and the Dakotas.
    • And it's entirely possible somebody dropped a cigarette at the bottom of the gulch here.
    • An impressive mill was built on the lower slope of the mountain near the foot of the gulch.
    • The town of Deadwood is cradled in a narrow gulch between pine-covered bluffs in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
    • Timber on the mountainsides here grows in vertical stripes on the flanks between gulches where avalanches scour everything but the most flexible willows and young trees.
    Synonyms
    gorge, abyss, canyon, ravine, gully, gulf, pass, defile, couloir, crevasse, cleft, rift, rent

Origin

Mid 19th century: perhaps from dialect gulch ‘to swallow’.

 
 
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