nullah
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- noun A ravine or gully, especially in southern Asia.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun In the East Indies, a watercourse: commonly used for the dry bed of a stream.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- noun A concrete lined channel designed to allow rapid run off of storm water from high ground, to prevent flooding of urbanised coastal areas.
Examples
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I had been on horse-back, riding hard, seeing a shot strike home in a sandy nullah - so why, I wondered irritably, was I now standing up, leaning against something hard, with what seemed to be a polished table top in front of me?
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According to SHO police station Chitral a car bearing registration No. PSC 1151 was on its way from Barinus Gol to Chitral town, when it reached to Barinus nullah, fell down in a deep stream while negotiating a sharp turn.
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The Road having big ditches in its middle and a water nullah (stream) also passing through this road having no bridge or culvert.
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Accordingly, the banks of a small nullah, or brook, were covered with the footmarks of tigers and other animals of prey.
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I had been away on a distant plantation and was riding slowly home in the evening, when my eye fell upon something all huddled together at the bottom of a steep nullah.
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Turton's troops of horse artillery, under Major Lawrenson, dashed among the flying infantry, committing great havoc, until about 800 or 1000 men rallied under the high bank of a nullah, and opened a heavy but ineffectual fire from below the bank.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
Note
The word 'nullah' comes ultimately from a Sanskrit word meaning 'tube'.
