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Gulph vs Gulch - What's the difference?

gulph | gulch |

As nouns the difference between gulph and gulch

is that gulph is obsolete spelling of gulf while gulch is a ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; it is shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.

As a verb gulch is

to swallow greedily; to gulp down.

gulph

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (hypercorrect)
  • *1819 , , Otho the Great , Act III, Scene I, verses 3-6
    • Or that the sword of some brave enemy
    Had put a sudden stop to my hot breath,
    And hurl’d me down the illimitable gulph
    Of times past, unremember’d!
  • *1889', Fell on the pirates by the deep, / And hurled them in the ' gulph of sleep. — ’

    • 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)