gully2 n Cp EDD gurry sb4 var gully 'hand-barrow' D for sense 1.
1 A barrel or tub, freq with handles or rope affixed to the sides, used as a receptacle for salt, cod livers, etc; COVEL.
[1774] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 22 In the evening I sailed for the Colleroon, in the Otter, with a hundred and fifty gullies of salt. 1792 ibid Gloss i, xi ~ A Barrel with only one head in it, and a couple of large holes bored under the chime hoops of the other end, to introduce a stang to carry it upon. They are used chiefly to carry salt in. 1866 WILSON 213 The liver of the fish, as said above, is dropped through a hole in the splitting-table, into the gully or barrel beneath; when the gully is full of liver it is emptied into a vat or hogshead outside, and exposed to the weather. 1937 DEVINE 26 ~ a covel or half barrel with handles. P 148-60 ~ a tub with side handles, made out of a halfbarrel and used for washing fish. 1971 NOSEWORTHY 207 ~ A tub made of a half-barrel and carried by a rope and a long stick.
2 A water barrel (P 261-55).
T 141/62-652 He went back to the gully back o' the foremast, an' got the mug o' water. 1972 MURRAY 187 The 'gully' (water barrel) and the water buckets would be placed there [in the porch] both winter and summer.
3 Comb gully stick: stick placed through tub or barrel for two men to carry.
M 71-4 There was also an unwritten law that anyone who entered your house during supper [on Christmas Eve] had to be taken home on the 'gully stick.' The gully stick was merely a straight pole which fitted through two holes of a water barrel and was used to carry the water barrel home.
