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a wound in the earth carved by water that refused to take the slow path
means A deep channel or ravine cut into the ground by running water, often steep-sided and dry except after rain.
from From the French 'goulet,' a narrow channel or the neck of a bottle — itself a little 'gola,' throat, from Latin 'gula' (gullet). So a gully is literally a throat in the landscape, a gullet for runoff. The word's water-carved sense took root in English, and it later sprouted slang lives of its own, but the bones are the same swallowing throat.
- birth
- starts as a tiny rill, ends swallowing fields
- slang
- means tough, raw, street-hardened in patois
- cricket
- a fielding position lurking near the slips
- erosion
- can deepen meters in a single storm
- badlands
- whole landscapes sculpted into mazes of them
appalachian creek systems — small water-carved ravines throughout west virginia and kentucky that form natural drainage patterns
gully cricket in india — street cricket played in narrow lanes and alleys across indian cities since the 1950s