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ghut

/ɡʌt/

ghut noun: a steep ravine leading to the sea.

Noun

ghut (plural ghuts)

  1. (Caribbean) A steep ravine leading to the sea.
    • Ghuts / There is considerable variation between ghuts and also along the length of each ghut. Near the sea the ghuts are deep, dry and straight-sided, but inland they become more V-shaped and moist.1990, I. R. Corker, Nevis: Resource Assessment and Zoning Plan, page 25
    • […] flooding occurred from two (2) ghuts, also from East River and Winfield River. At Bloody Point on the Southwest there is a large ghut through which stormwater flows to the sea. […]2000, Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Wastewater and ..., page 215

Examples of ghut in a sentence

  • […] ghuts for cleaning, carried buckets to the house, [and] burned charcoal for cooking and ironing as well as for sale.2001, Eugenia O'Neal, From the Field to the Legislature: A History of Women in the ..., page 68
  • […] such as along ghuts or drainage channels and ravines that are prone to flooding.2022, James A. Delle, Elizabeth C. Clay, Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved...

Forms of ghut

pluralghuts

Origin of ghut

Occasionally suggested to be a variant of ghat, from Hindi, but compare native English dialectal gut (“narrow channel or stream of water; opening through cliffs leading to the sea”). Compare ghaut.

Questions about ghut

What does ghut mean?
Ghut means a steep ravine leading to the sea.
How do you use ghut in a sentence?
[…] ghuts for cleaning, carried buckets to the house, [and] burned charcoal for cooking and ironing as well as for sale.
What part of speech is ghut?
Ghut is a noun.
How do you pronounce ghut?
Ghut is pronounced /ɡʌt/.
What is the plural of ghut?
The plural of ghut is ghuts.

Words near ghut in the dictionary

  1. ghurry
  2. ghurush
  3. ghurushes
  4. ghusl
  5. ghusls
  6. ghut
  7. ghutra
  8. ghutrah
  9. ghutrahs
  10. ghutras
  11. ghuts

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