gulph

English

Noun

gulph (plural gulphs)

1. (hypercorrect) Obsolete spelling of gulf.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act III, scene I, verses 3-6:

     Or that the sword of some brave enemy
     Had put a sudden stop to my hot breath,
     And hurl’d me down the illimitable gulph
     Of times past, unremember’d!

   • 1889, Fell on the pirates by the deep, / And hurled them in the gulph of sleep. — William Butler Yeats, ‘The Madness of King Goll’

Verb

gulph (third-person singular simple present gulphs, present participle gulphing, simple past and past participle gulphed)

1. Alternative form of gulf
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

     Fill to […] the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulph down for a shilling.