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gulch
noun
A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; it is shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
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The narrow but hugely extended gulch that snakes down from the lifeless upper reaches of Lascar and finishes in the Atacama desert is a thin vein of life where many creatures find sanctuary.
Though the writers' strike that threatened to close down production from early May was headed off at the gulch, nobody knew till the last moment that it would be averted.
The discovery (September 1898) of gulch gold at nearby Anvil Creek resulted in a remarkable mining stampede.
A particularly striking example of this variability is the flash flood, a sudden, unexpected torrent of muddy and turbulent water rushing down a canyon or gulch.
In regard to lobbyists in Washington, D.C., in newspapers and other popular writings, they are often talked about in connection with the terms "K Street" and "Gucci gulch," as it is on K Street that many of the contract lobbying firms are located, and the corridors in the Capitol where lobbyists congregate have been nicknamed for the expensive shoes and garments they often wear.
We are the last house at the very back of the Springs, down in a gulch.
Suddenly, the wind reversed, and Dodge watched the fire leap across the gulch and spark the grass on his side.
But there turned out to be, if not a cliff, at least a gulch still embedded in the deal.
They piled into Bob's little Dodge, and he drove them to Oak Creek, which, Dorothy wrote, consisted of "a coal mine and a miners' boarding house in a narrow gulch beside the RR, and Mr. Perry's house perched on a mountainside".
As we passed the dry gulch of the Khaisor Ravine, two small boys with slingshots and a girl in a cranberry-colored head scarf jumped for the low branches of an acacia tree.
Pfenninger gradually descended, sailing low over a gulch — deer fleeing, kids waving — while eying various fields and back yards.
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