Usually means: Deep ditch caused by water.
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  1. gully: Merriam-Webster
  2. gully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gully, gully: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gully: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gully: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gully, gully: Wordnik
  7. gully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gully, gully: Wiktionary
  9. gully: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gully: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gully: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gully: Dictionary.com
  13. gully: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gully: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gully (Mars), Gully (album), Gully (disambiguation), Gully (film), Gully, The Gully (Atlantic): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gully: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gully: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gully: Rhymezone
  19. Gully: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. GULLY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. gully: FreeDictionary.org
  23. gully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gully: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. gully: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Gully: Artist Search

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  1. gully, gully, gully, gully: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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  1. Gully: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gully: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See gullied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
noun:  A small valley.
noun:  (UK) A drop kerb.
noun:  A road drain.
noun:  (cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
noun:  (UK) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
verb:  (obsolete) To flow noisily.
verb:  (transitive) To wear away into a gully or gullies.
noun:  (Scotland, northern UK) A large knife.
noun:  (chiefly South Asia) An alleyway or side street.
noun:  A surname.

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