Creek vs. Gully — What's the Difference?

A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and northwest Florida and now located in central Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.

A gully is a landform created by running water, eroding sharply into soil or other relatively erodable material, typically on a hillside. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys, but are metres to tens of metres in depth and width.

The Muskogean language of the Creek.

A ravine formed by the action of water.

A Native American confederacy made up of the Creek and various smaller southeast tribes.

A fielding position on the off side between point and the slips

A member of this confederacy. In all senses also called Muskogee1.

An alley.

A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river. Also called regionally branch, brook1, kill2, run.

(of water) make gullies or deep channels in (land)

A channel or stream running through a salt marsh

A deep ditch or channel cut in the earth by running water after a prolonged downpour.

Chiefly British A small inlet in a shoreline, extending farther inland than a cove.

A channel in the side of a mountain, especially one forming a path for avalanches or rockfall.

(British) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.

A large knife.

A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.

To wear a deep ditch or channel in.

Any turn or winding.

To form a deep ditch or channel.

A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.

A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.

A small valley.

Any turn or winding.

(UK) A drop kerb.

A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river);

A road drain.

Any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position

(UK) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.

A large knife.

(India) an alleyway or side street.

(obsolete) To flow noisily..

(transitive) To wear away into a gully or gullies.

A large knife.

A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

A grooved iron rail or tram plate.

To wear into a gully or into gullies.

To flow noisily.

Deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour)