Gulch vs Hollow - What's the difference?
gulch | hollow |
(obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.
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.
(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
(of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.
* Prior
* Tennyson
A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
(US) A sunken area.
(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
* Sir Walter Scott
As verbs the difference between gulch and hollow
is that gulch is to swallow greedily; to gulp down while hollow is to make a hole in something; to excavate.As nouns the difference between gulch and hollow
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 hollow is a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.As an adjective hollow is
(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.As an adverb hollow is
completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.As an interjection hollow is
alternative form of lang=en.gulch
English
Verb
(es)Noun
(es)- (Ben Jonson)
hollow
English
Alternative forms
* hollerEtymology 1
(etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.Adjective
(er)- a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere
- a hollow moan
- (Dryden)
- a hollow victory
- a hollow promise
- With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
Derived terms
* hollow legAdverb
(-)Etymology 2
(etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.Noun
(en noun)- Forests grew upon the barren hollows .
- I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
- He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
- the hollow of the hand or of a tree
- a hollow in the pit of one's stomach
Etymology 3
Compare holler.Verb
(en verb)- He has hollowed the hounds.