| 词组 | gully washer |
| 释义 | gully washerRelated to gully washer: toad strangler gully washerAn extremely heavy rainstorm that usually lasts a short amount of time. That gully washer at 3 AM woke me up because the pouring rain was so loud on the roof! See also: washer Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
References in periodicals archive If they aren't properly managed they contribute heavily to erosion from run off caused by toad stranglers and gully washers. On the loose at the 15th Annual Wisconsin Grazing Conference, Part I: toad stranglers, chicken wranglers, global warming and forgiveness farming In fact, sometimes after a gully washer an old bison skull works its way to the surface for one of the ranch cowboys to discover. Tall tines in short sage: stalking mule deer in sage-covered terrain is fair-chase bowhunting at its best Bright sun, with a cool, light breeze on Saturday, and a hot headwind for much of Sunday--with a brief sprinkle or a cooling gully washer depending on where one was on the route Saturday afternoon. My first MS 150: last summer, General Dugan put his commitment to our mission on the road as a cyclist in the Colorado Chapter's MS 150. His story is dedicated to everyone who will ride this year.... (The Last Word) Unfortunately, the next time we came to the lake, we found a gully washer had swept away all of the markers. HILLSIDE GARDEN The only time the creek was deep enough for serious swimmin' was immediately following a gully washer, and quick as the storm subsided we snatched our sun-bleached suits from the line and dashed for the pasture. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb: an ode to the country swimming hole Down in the flatlands, some north Willamette Valley towns experienced as much as an inch of rain in six hours, and weather spotters reported gully washers in other places: half an inch fell in Dallas in 25 minutes and in Salem in an hour, Wild said. Rain, wind bring winter to the region |
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