Gulch

English

Verb

Gulch (third-person singular simple present Gulchs, present participle Gulching, simple past and past participle Gulched)

1. (obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

Noun

Gulch (plural Gulches)

1. (obsolete) An act of gulching or gulping.
2. (obsolete) A glutton
3. A narrow V-shaped valley with a stream running through it.
4. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)</span> 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 Middle English gulchen (“to gulp”)

Translations

act of gulping — see gulp

glutton — see glutton

a narrow v-shaped valley

Finnish: kuru (fi)

Remote village

Dutch: gat (nl) n. Estonian: sälkorg (et) Finnish: loukko (fi)

French: patelin (fr) m., trou (fr) m., bled (fr) m. German: Kaff (de)