Gulch

Verb

 * 1)  To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

Noun

 * 1)  An act of gulching or gulping.
 * 2)  A glutton
 * 3) A narrow V-shaped valley with a stream running through it.
 * 4)  A remote town or village, lacking in infrastructure and equipment

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From gulchen:

Translations

 * Finnish: kuru


 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: sälkorg
 * Finnish: loukko


 * French:, ,
 * German: