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gulph
noun 1verb 1
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3ADJ.
illimitable
GULPH + NOUN
william
PREP.
down, down, in
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noun
1
Obsolete spelling of gulf.
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!
1889, Fell on the pirates by the deep, / And hurled them in the gulph of sleep. — William Butler Yeats, ‘The Madness of King Goll’
verb
1
Alternative form of gulf.
Fill to[…]the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulph down for a shilling.
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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!
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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’
Wiktionary03
Fill to[…]the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulph down for a shilling.
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