Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A corruption of coulée.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
coulee .
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Examples
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Down a little "cooley" some thirty men had made a rush for their lives; the Sioux had simply thronged the banks shooting them as they ran.
Custer's Last Battle 1890
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Pushing forward, Reno came quickly to a shallow "cooley" (frontierism for gully) that led down through the bluff to the stream.
Custer's Last Battle 1890
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Whoever they may be they are in the "cooley" and watching the prairie.
Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888
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Farther out he can hear hoof-beats and voices, so he edges along westward until he comes suddenly to a depression, a little winding "cooley" across the prairie, through which in the early spring the snows are carried off from some ravine among the bluffs.
Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888
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While it true that China has more Gantry Cranes, Container Cranes, and Tower Cranes than any nation on earth, the tools of choice for the people down below, for the shoddily clad Chinese laborers wearing the straw cooley hats, are still predominantly the old classics, the pick and the shovel, the hammer and the hand auger.
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Real strength means being able to deal with a wide variety of threats and stressors, cooley.
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Stephiisooamazin who is ryan cooley dating in real life, they say hegoing out with mariam mcdonalds so i want to know if it true or no, also if it is true you guys make a cute couple saira
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Ok first off manny had an abortion in the third season wen craig got her pregnant and i noe mannys made mistakes but shes learned now and is a nice girl (geez im talkin bout a fictional character) im so sad ryan cooley is leaving the show he was awesome.
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Real strength means being able to deal with a wide variety of threats and stressors, cooley.
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Real strength means being able to deal with a wide variety of threats and stressors, cooley.
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