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There was mining everywhere along that grand road, with all its destruction and devastation, its digging, burrowing, gulching, and sluicing; and up all along the seemingly inaccessible heights were holes with their roofs log supported, in which solitary and patient men were selling their lives for treasure.
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You may read it in great letters in the colouring of their red snouts, and gulching bellies as big as a tun, unless it be when they perfume themselves with sulphur.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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You may read it in great letters in the colouring of their red snouts, and gulching bellies as big as a tun, unless it be when they perfume themselves with sulphur.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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She'll be laying back, a big iron bushwacker eager for a dry-gulching.
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
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There was mining everywhere along that grand road, with all its destruction and devastation, its digging, burrowing, gulching, and sluicing; and up all along the seemingly inaccessible heights were holes with their roofs log supported, in which solitary and patient men were selling their lives for treasure.
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Periodically Eli is inconvenienced by dry-gulching cannibal bandits, but he has no problem dispatching such social refuse thanks to his mastery of the sword, bow, knife, shotgun, pistol, and Eastwoodian one-liner.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Periodically Eli is inconvenienced by dry-gulching cannibal bandits, but he has no problem dispatching such social refuse thanks to his mastery of the sword, bow, knife, shotgun, pistol, and Eastwoodian one-liner.
Chicago Reader 2010
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You may read it in great letters in the colouring of their red snouts, and gulching bellies as big as a tun, unless it be when they perfume themselves with sulphur.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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The dismal plans went on and on'the whores, the dry-gulching, the bank robbery, the runaway stagecoach.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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You are all a haggling, gulching, good-for-nothing crew.”
Margaret 1851
Gammerstang commented on the word gulching
(noun) - On the Labrador coast, gulching has a meaning peculiar to that region and to those who frequent it. In summer, men, women, and children from Newfoundland spend some weeks there fishing and living in a very promiscuous way. As there is no tree for shelter for hundreds of miles of islands and shores, parties resort to the hollows for secret indulgence. Hence gulching has, among them, become a synonym for living a wanton life. --George Story's Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 1982
January 27, 2018