gully
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1. gully - Noun
2. gully - Verb
3. Gully - Proper noun
Meaning
A large knife.
A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.
A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
To wear into a gully or into gullies.
To flow noisily.
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In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.
Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation. Deep space is my dwelling place, The stars my destination.
It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.
It's the same old wilderness, just no longer up on that hill or around that bend or in the gully. It's the fact that there is no more hill or gully, that the hollow is there and you've got to explore the hollow with faith.
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
The major suggested we go down a gully, but I knew that was the wrong way. And I told him we were not going down any gully. We were going straight through the German front line trenches back to the American lines.