Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gully .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word gullied.
Examples
-
We were quite tired when we reached our destination, rode up a washed and "gullied" approach to a most miserable looking habitation, a little have cultivated enclosure on one side, a lot on the other in which stood a poor bay horse, while outside under a tree languished a miserable claybank, with his back all bloody, a decrepit paling enclosed a little yard before the door where
-
The road was badly washed and gullied and showed little sign of travel.
CHAPTER VII 2010
-
He was describing how excessive rains gullied out his fields this year, delayed planting and harvesting, and how getting the land back into proper shape will probably take a long time.
-
Upon reemerging, the sun baked the mud into a cracked and gullied carapace as resistant to the plow as a layer of granite.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
-
This involved first setting their car in the river for three days to swell its weather-beaten wooden spokes, lest the wheels shake themselves into matchsticks on the gullied road.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
-
Mom steers the Bug down their long, gullied driveway, trying not to bottom-out at the end.
Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods 2010
-
The second of these, vast and gullied, with its own pond, and criss-crossed with pathways lined with hundred-year-old lime trees, made the strongest impression on her, possibly because it was the closest to Pushkin Street where her parents lived when she was seven years old.
-
This involved first setting their car in the river for three days to swell its weather-beaten wooden spokes, lest the wheels shake themselves into matchsticks on the gullied road.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
-
Just below the booming Yukon town, Clay climbs the scarred and gullied "slide" of Moosehide Mountain and, with his body chilling, his fingers frost-bitten, he slips and slides down in a small avalanche, then regains his balance and attains the summit.
“. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .” 2008
-
Upon reemerging, the sun baked the mud into a cracked and gullied carapace as resistant to the plow as a layer of granite.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.