Gully

Noun

 * 1) a trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
 * 2) a small valley
 * 3) (United Kingdom) A drop kerb
 * 4) A road drain
 * 5)  A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position

Related terms

 * gullet

Noun

 * 1)  A large knife.
 * 2) * 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 139:
 * With that I made my mind up, took out my gully, opened it with my teeth, and cut one strand after another...

Verbs for Gully
excavate—; force along—; form—; furrow —; hollow into—; rise from—; scramble up —; straddle—; —deepens; —extends; — graduates; —opens.

Thesaurus
abysm, abyss, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, box canyon, breach, break, canal, canalize, canyon, carve, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chisel, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, corridor, corrugate, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, creek bed, crevasse, crevice, crimp, culvert, cut, cwm, dado, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, dry bed, engrave, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, flute, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, goffer, gorge, gouge, groove, gulch, gulf, gullyhole, headrace, hole, incise, incision, irrigation ditch, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, pleat, plow, rabbet, race, ravine, rent, rifle, rift, rime, river bed, riverway, runnel, rupture, rut, scissure, score, scratch, seam, slit, slot, sluice, spillbox, spillway, split, streak, stream bed, streamway, striate, swash, swash channel, tailrace, trench, trough, valley, void, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, wrinkle

Alternative forms

 * gulley (Etymology 1)

Etymology 1
Probably related to golet "ravine, throat," French goulet, Latin gula "throat".

Etymology 2
Scots gully, of unknown origin.

Etymology
Origin unknown.

Noun

 * 1) large knife
 * God than he lewch and owre the dyk lap, / And owt of his scheith his gully owtgatt. (The Bannatyne Manuscript)