barranco
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
Definition of barranco
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A gully, gulch, or ravine.
“We remounted at 3 p.m., and for three hours and a half we rode down a goat-track which resembled the depths of a barranco. It was the dry bed of a river, with rocks balanced upon each other […]”
“A little fire burned in the hollow of the dusty barranco, a clear red fire of the kind that gives little light and makes no smoke, and its pale glow showed but feebly against the rock behind.”
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noun
-
A gully, gulch, or ravine.
“We remounted at 3 p.m., and for three hours and a half we rode down a goat-track which resembled the depths of a barranco. It was the dry bed of a river, with rocks balanced upon each other […]”
“A little fire burned in the hollow of the dusty barranco, a clear red fire of the kind that gives little light and makes no smoke, and its pale glow showed but feebly against the rock behind.”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish barranco.
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