subs. (common).—1.  The throat. For synonyms, see GUTTER-ALLEY.

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  2.  (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see MONOSYLLABLE.

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  3.  (old and Scots’).—A knife. For synonyms, see CHIVE.

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  1653.  URQUHART, Rabelais, bk. I., ch. xxvii. Fair GULLIES which are little haulch-backed demi-knives.

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  1787.  BURNS, Death and Doctor Hornbook.

        I red ye weel, tak care o’ skaith,
            See, there’s a GULLY.
    Ibid., Address to Captain Grose.
The knife that nickit Abel’s craig,
            He’ll prove ye fully
It was a faulding jocteleg,
            Or lang-kail GULLY.

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  Verb (common).—TO GULL (q.v.); to dupe; to swindle. For synonyms, see STICK.

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  1834.  W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, bk. III., ch. v. I rode about and speechified, and everybody GULLIED.

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