khud

plural khuds · alternative khad · alternative khadd · alternative khudd

1. IndiaA steep cleft in a hillside; a ravine.

   We are only little bits of dirt on the hillsides—here one day and blown down the khud the next.

   1909, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere. Part I.”, in Under the Deodars (The Works of Rudyard Kipling), Edinburgh de Luxe edition, Boston, Mass.; London: The Edinburgh Society, →OCLC, page 8