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English
Noun
gulph (plural gulphs)
- (hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf.
1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act III, scene I, verses 3-6: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
gulph (third-person singular simple present gulphs, present participle gulphing, simple past and past participle gulphed)
- Alternative form of gulf
1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:Fill to […] the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulph down for a shilling.