Definitions for gullies

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gullies gul·ly

Spelling: [guhl-ee]

IPA: /ˈgʌl i/

Gullies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in gullies (egillsu).

Definitions for gullies

noun

1. a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.
2. a ditch or gutter.
3. Cricket. the position of a fielder between point and slips. the fielder occupying this position.
4. a knife, especially a large kitchen or butcher knife.

verb (used with object)

1. to make gullies in.
2. to form (channels) by the action of water.

Origin of gullies

1530-40; apparently variant of gullet, with -y replacing French -et

Examples for gullies

The gullies are steep and narrow: the heat settles on them like a curse.

He felt relieved down in the gullies, where he could not see far.

All day axes resounded in the firs, and picks were busy in the gullies.

They were taken in the gullies that were cut for watering the meadows.

The stench of decomposing flesh greeted us before we saw that rotting bodies were lying in the gullies on either side of us.

They might be waiting now at the mouth of any of these gullies.

It may be seen, frequently, in the ravines and gullies, and in the points of bluffs.

The snow in the gullies had a curious bloody line which I could not account for.

The flash revealed to me one of the gullies I had been anxious to avoid.

Snow was still lying in the gullies only a few rods above us.