Gulph
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gulph is a noun meaning (hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf.
Meaning
(hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of gulf.
Example Sentences
Fill to[…]the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulph down for a shilling.
1889, Fell on the pirates by the deep, / And hurled them in the gulph of sleep. — William Butler Yeats, ‘The Madness of King Goll’
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!
Word Forms
- gulphs
- gulphing
- gulphed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include declivity, declivities, gulfs, brooklet, shoreward, crost.
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