gully

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Scots gully, of unknown origin.

1. A large knife.

   “With that I made my mind up, took out my gully, opened it with my teeth, and cut one strand after another[…]”

verb

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”). Shift in meaning in Middle English to "water channel, ravine" may have been influenced by Middle English gylle, gille, galle (“deep narrow valley, ravine”); see gill. Compare Dutch geul. Alternatively, from a diminutive of dialectal gull (“fissue, chasm”) + -y (diminutive suffix). See gull, gullick.

1. To flow noisily.
2. To wear away into a gully or gullies.