What does gulph mean?
Gulph means (hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf..
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!
Fill to[…]the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulph down for a shilling.
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Gulph means (hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf..
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1889, Fell on the pirates by the deep, / And hurled them in the gulph of sleep. — William Butler Yeats, ‘The Madness of King Goll’
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