Couloir

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A deep mountainside gorge or gully, especially in the Swiss Alps.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A steep gorge along a mountainside.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A deep gorge; a gully.
  • n. A dredging machine for excavating canals, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A steeply ascending gorge or gully: applied especially to gorges near the Alpine summits.
  • n. A dredging-machine which employs iron elevator-buckets on an endless chain and excavates by making a gully where the buckets pass.
  • Word Usage
    "To get down that tongue of rock to the lower snows of the couloir was a job that fairly brought us to the end of our tether."
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    gully   
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