Definitions for gully

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gully gul·ly

Spelling: [guhl-ee]

IPA: /ˈgʌl i/

Gully is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in gully (glluy).

Definitions for gully

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 gully

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

Examples for gully

In 2000, Cogswell helped found The gully, an online lesbian magazine, which closed six years later.

Then the trail was lost in a gully where the animals had gone in every direction to get through.

He had fallen into a gully, the horse had thrown him, he was lost.

Followed up the gully about a mile, and came to a small spring, and camped.

Yet no youth reaches his majority without exploring the gully.

After long looking about I found water in a gully and camped.

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We left the track to examine a gully to the north, but could not find any water.

At about noon we found some water in a gully by scratching a hole, but it was quite salt.

Camped on a gully with some old feed in the flat, in latitude 27 degrees 49 minutes.