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’