From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
      
   Bob Tiernan wrote:   
      
   > Gerald Clough wrote:   
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   >   
   >>In the west, it's a gulch or ravine, and the word usually   
   >>implies that it's a seasonal or occasional watercourse   
   >>that's usually dry. Meaning varies with region.   
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   >   
   > Yeah, and unlike a seasonal watercourse such as a donga   
   > in southern Africa (which is often a ditch-like   
   > depression in which water will flow in the rainy   
   > season), a coulee includes the narrow depression in   
   > which the water flows as well as the sloping ground rising   
   > from it on either side, some of these being perhaps   
   > a mile wide.   
   >   
   > Bob T   
     Yeah. I'd say that's consistent with the way the word was used as a   
   place name.   
      
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