| 单词 | gully |
| 释义 | gully (once / 1524 pages) n A gully is a deep valley that's formed by water that runs across and land and wears it away. Most gullies form along hillsides. When a stream or runoff from a heavy rainfall erodes the land and forms a ravine or ditch, the result is a gully. The origin of the word is unclear, but it may come from the Middle English golet, "water channel." If you hear someone use the somewhat old fashioned term "gully washer," they're talking about a torrential rain storm — one that's heavy enough to form a gully. WORD FAMILYgully: gullied, gullies USAGE EXAMPLESDiscovered in 1974, wedged into a gully in Ethiopia's Awash Valley, the delicate, diminutive skeleton is both uncannily familiar and alluringly strange. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) Then I encountered a gully on the way to a small bridge over the creek and wiped out on the way down. Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016) A few hundred meters to his left in a roadside gully, three dead goats stewed in the toxic slime. Reuters(Oct 10, 2016) n deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour) Hypo|Hyper arroyo a stream or brook drawa gully that is shallower than a ravine wadigully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season vale, valley a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river |
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