Noun

(en noun)

A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.

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Noun

(en noun)

(India) A ravine; a steep cleft in a hillside.

*1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Education of Otis Yeere’, Under the Deodars , Folio Society 2005, p. 8:

*:We are only little bits of dirt on the hillsides – here one day and blown down the khud the next.