ghut

plural ghuts

1. CaribbeanA steep ravine leading to the sea.

   […] flooding occurred from two (2) ghuts, also from East River and Winfield River. At Bloody Point on the Southwest there is a large ghut through which stormwater flows to the sea. […]

   2000, Proceedings of the Workshop on Sustainable Wastewater and ..., page 215

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   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.

   1990, I. R. Corker, Nevis: Resource Assessment and Zoning Plan, page 25

   […] ghuts for cleaning, carried buckets to the house, [and] burned charcoal for cooking and ironing as well as for sale. Since there was no piped water, ghuts (ravines of flowing water) were the laundries of the day.

   2001, Eugenia O'Neal, From the Field to the Legislature: A History of Women in the ..., page 68

   […] such as along ghuts or drainage channels and ravines that are prone to flooding. In some cases, slaves were put to work building terraces to control flooding (Merrill 1958, 78). During intermittent rainstorms, water can rush violently down ghuts […]

   2022, James A. Delle, Elizabeth C. Clay, Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved...