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▪ I. † gulch, n.1 Obs.
[f. gulch v.1]
A glutton or drunkard.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv, You'll see vs then, you will, Gulch, you will? 1607Brewer Lingua v. xvi, You muddy gulche, darst looke me in the face? 1611Cotgr., Engorgeur, a rauener, glutton, gulch, ingorger.
▪ II. gulch, n.2 Obs. exc. dial.|gʌl(t)ʃ|
Also gulsh.
[f. gulch v.2]
A heavy fall. Used adverbially in to come down gulch.
1671Echard Observ. Answ. Cont. Clergy 39 Then he has me most cruelly upon the Hip, and brings me over with a most deadly Gulsh. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Gulsh,..a heavy fall. 1839J. Noakes & Mary Styles 12 (E.D.S. No. 76), I dorn't think I cud clime it now,..I shudn't warsley loike to troy, For gulch cum down I shud.
▪ III. gulch, n.3 U.S.|gʌl(t)ʃ|
[? Connected with gulch v.1]
1. a. A narrow and deep ravine, with steep sides, marking the course of a torrent; esp. one containing a deposit of gold.
1832A. Earle Narr. Res. N.Z. 1 May (1966) 220 From the Peak..to the sea shore, the earth is cut into gullies... The settlers call these ravines gultches. 1850B. Taylor Eldorado ix. (1862) 87 The word gulch..denotes a mountain ravine..steep, abrupt, and inaccessible. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. xc. 224 A crowd of men who..will scatter again as soon as..the gold in the gulch is exhausted. 1964F. O'Rourke Mule for Marquesa (1967) x. 124 The canyon..became..a mere gulch with fifty-foot walls that debouched ingloriously into the gap.
b. transf. ‘A long, narrow, deep depression of the sea bottom’ (Cent. Dict.).
2. attrib., as gulch-diggings, gulch-gold, gulch-man, gulch-mine, gulch-miner, gulch-mining, gulch-washing.
1859San Francisco Bulletin 5 May 1/2 The gulch diggings are..paying well for the labor expended.
1876R. W. Raymond Statistics of Mines VIII. 297 The production of gulch-gold on and below Spanish Bar has amounted..to $80,000.
1869A. K. McClure Rocky Mtns. 210 (Th.), The unfortunate politician is ‘corraled’ by the mountaineers, the gulchmen, or the settlers.
1866Beadle's Monthly Oct. 279/1 The diggings yielded very richly..but, like most gulch mines, were soon exhausted. 1877Black Green Past. xiii, The gulch and placer mines..were giving a fair yield.
1867J. F. Meline 2000 Miles on Horseback 63 The gulch miner has been here in all his pristine strength and glory.
1867Harper's Mag. June 11/2 We..passed over a creek which had been brought by an artificial ditch for gulch-mining purposes.
1876R. W. Raymond Statistics of Mines VIII. 186 The gold comes from the gulch-washings in Indian district near the Eagle Mine.
▪ IV. gulch, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 9 dial. gulge, gulsh.
[Echoic; cf. Ger. dial. gulken, Norw. gulka, Sw. dial. gölka. Derbyshire and Devonshire have a form gulk.]
1. trans. To swallow or devour greedily. Also with down, in, up.
a1225Ancr. R. 240 Heo drinkeð þene drunch..ne iueleð heo it neuer, auh gulcheð in ȝiuerliche. 1611Florio, Ingorgare, to engurgle, to gargarize, to gulch. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. iv. 23 They should be all of them gulched up. 1890Gloucester Gloss., Gulch, to gulp, swallow greedily.
b. Comb., † gulchcup, one who drains the cup greedily, a tosspot.
a1225Ancr. R. 216 Ȝif þe gulchecuppe weallinde bres to drincken, & ȝeot in his wide þrote þet he aswelte wiðinnen.
†2. to gulch out: to vomit. lit. and fig. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 88 Þe uorme..gulcheð al ut somed þet þe attri heorte sent up to þe tunge. Ibid. 206 Gulche hit ut ine schrifte, utterliche, ase heo hit dude, þeo þet iveleð hire schuldi.
▪ V. gulch, v.2 dial.|gʌl(t)ʃ|
[app. echoic.]
intr. To fall or plunge heavily. b. trans. To fall heavily upon.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 207 Ne'er an axe was heard to sound, Or a tree's fall gulsh'd the ground. Ibid. II. 190 The splashings..Of fly-bit cattle gulshing in the brook.
▪ VI. gulch, v.3|gʌl(t)ʃ|
[f. gulch n.3]
1. trans. To drag (wood) down a gulch.
1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 28 Cutting and gulching 50 cords of wood, at $2.50 per cord.
2. intr. To dig (for gold) in a gulch.
1879H. Drummond in Life (1899) 157 A hundred prospectors gulching for gold and silver.
▪ VII. gulch
variant of culch.
1882Standard 26 Sept. 2/2 The oyster dredgers are glad to give sixpence or sevenpence a bushel for them as ‘gulch’, to lay down to catch the ‘spat’. |