GULF
ADJECTIVES
► GURGITIVE belonging to a gulf or stream → 1656 obs.
NOUNS
► ABYSM any deep immeasurable space; a profound chasm or gulf; an abyss → 1495
► DALE a hole in the ground; a hollow, a pit, a gulf → a800 obs.
► DOWNFALL a steep downward slope; an abyss, a gulf → 1542
► DUNGEON a deep, dark lace in the sea or land; a gulf, abyss, or chasm; a cave or cavern; often used in the plural → c1475
► GURGES a whirlpool, a gulf → 1664
► MINN a mouth, inlet or arm of the sea; a deep hollow in the bottom of the sea; a bay or gulf the water of which is deeper than that of the sea outside it → 1897 Sc.
► SINE a gulf or bay → 1591 obs.
► SINUS a bay, gulf, or arm of the sea → 1684 obs.
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