gulch

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

gulch
    n 1: a narrow gorge with a stream running through it [syn:
         {gulch}, {flume}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gulch \Gulch\, n.
   1. Act of gulching or gulping. [Obs.]
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   2. A glutton. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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   3. A ravine, or part of the deep bed of a torrent when dry; a
      gully.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gulch \Gulch\, v. t. [OE. gulchen; cf. dial. Sw. g["o]lka to
   gulch, D. gulzig greedy, or E. gulp.]
   To swallow greedily; to gulp down. [Obs.]
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

100 Moby Thesaurus words for "gulch":
      abysm, abyss, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, box canyon, breach, break,
      canal, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft,
      cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny,
      creek bed, crevasse, crevice, culvert, cut, cwm, defile, dell,
      dike, ditch, donga, draw, dry bed, excavation, fault, fissure,
      flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove,
      gulf, gully, gullyhole, headrace, hole, incision, irrigation ditch,
      joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage,
      race, ravine, rent, rift, rime, river bed, riverway, runnel,
      rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, sluice, spillbox, spillway,
      split, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace,
      trench, valley, void, wadi, water carrier, water channel,
      water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway,
      waterworks