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Gulch vs Culch - What's the difference?

gulch | culch |

As verbs the difference between gulch and culch

is that gulch is to swallow greedily; to gulp down while culch is to prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments.

As nouns the difference between gulch and culch

is that gulch is a ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; it is shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully while culch is the rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves.

gulch

English

Verb

(es)
  • (obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

    • Noun

    (es)
  • A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; it is shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
  • (obsolete) An act of gulching or gulping.
  • (obsolete) A glutton.
    • (Ben Jonson)

    culch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sculch, scultch, kulch, cultch

    Noun

    (-)
  • The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves.
  • (figuratively, US, New England) To accumulate small household items of little value.

    • Verb

  • To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments.