ghut

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ghut

/ɡʌt/

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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.

noun ghuts

Caribbean A steep ravine leading to the sea. 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.

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@misc{ghut_2026,
  title = {ghut},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ghut},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}