Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ghut

/ɡʌt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ghut
IPA: /ɡʌt/

8

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A steep ravine leading to the sea.

Example Sentences

"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."
"[…] 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. […]"
"[…] ghuts for cleaning, carried buckets to the house, [and] burned charcoal for cooking and ironing as well as for sale. Since there was no piped water, ghuts (ravines of flowing water) were the laundries of the day."
"[…] such as along ghuts or drainage channels and ravines that are prone to flooding. In some cases, slaves were put to work building terraces to control flooding (Merrill 1958, 78). During intermittent rainstorms, water can rush violently down ghuts […]"

Etymology

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.

Inflected Forms

ghuts (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce ghut?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡʌt/.
What does ghut mean?: A steep ravine leading to the sea.
Where does ghut come from?: 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.

How to pronounce ghut

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