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gully
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: g?l'?, IPA(key): /???li/
- Rhymes: -?li
Etymology 1
From Middle English golet, from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”).
Noun
gully (plural gullies)
- A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
- Synonym: gill
- A small valley.
- (Britain) A drop kerb.
- A road drain.
- (cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
- Synonym: box
- (Britain) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
Alternative forms
- gulley
Related terms
- gullet
- gully gut
- gully hole
Descendants
- ? German: Gully
Translations
Verb
gully (third-person singular simple present gullies, present participle gullying, simple past and past participle gullied)
- (obsolete) To flow noisily.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- (transitive) To wear away into a gully or gullies.
Etymology 2
From Scots gully, of unknown origin.
Noun
gully (plural gullies)
- (Scotland, northern UK) A large knife.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 139:
- With that I made my mind up, took out my gully, opened it with my teeth, and cut one strand after another […]
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 139:
Further reading
- gully on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Gullies And Other Knives
Scots
Etymology
Origin unknown.
Noun
gully (plural gullies)
- large knife
- God than he lewch and owre the dyk lap, / And owt of his scheith his gully owtgatt. (The Bannatyne Manuscript)
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rift
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?ft, IPA(key): /??ft/
- Rhymes: -?ft
Etymology 1
Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.
Noun
rift (plural rifts)
- A chasm or fissure.
- My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 130:
- A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
Derived terms
- rift valley
Translations
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
- (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
- (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
- to rift an oak
- to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt
- 1822, William Wordsworth, "A Jewish Family (in a small valley opposite St. Goar, upon the Rhine)" 9-11, [1]
- The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, [2]
- he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.
Etymology 2
From Old Norse rypta.
Verb
rift (third-person singular simple present rifts, present participle rifting, simple past and past participle rifted)
- (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.
Etymology 3
Verb
rift (obsolete)
- past participle of rive
- The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift
- Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
Anagrams
- FTIR, frit
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From the verb rive
Noun
rift f or m (definite singular rifta or riften, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)
- a rip, tear (in fabric)
- a break (in the clouds)
- a scratch (on skin, paint)
- a rift (geology)
Derived terms
- riftdal
References
- “rift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “rift” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From the verb rive or riva
Noun
rift f (definite singular rifta, indefinite plural rifter, definite plural riftene)
- a rip, tear (in fabric)
- a break (in the clouds)
- a scratch (on skin, paint)
- a rift (geology)
Derived terms
- riftdal
References
- “rift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rift?, *riftij?, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h?reb?- (“to cover; arch over; vault”). Cognate with Old High German peinrefta (“legwear; leggings”), Old Norse ript, ripti (“a kind of cloth; linen jerkin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rift/
Noun
rift n (nominative plural rift)
- a veil; curtain; cloak
Related terms
- rifte
Descendants
- Middle English: rift
Romanian
Etymology
From French rift.
Noun
rift n (plural rifturi)
- rift
Declension
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse rypta.
Verb
rift (third-person singular present rifts, present participle riftin, past riftit, past participle riftit)
- to belch, burp
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