khud
An Indian term for a steep ravine, cleft, or drop in a hillside — especially common in the Himalayan foothills and hill station regions.
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An Indian term for a steep ravine, cleft, or drop in a hillside — especially common in the Himalayan foothills and hill station regions. Anglo-Indian writers and British officers in India used 'khud' frequently to describe the hazardous steep drops along mountain roads and paths. The word conveys a specific kind of vertiginous landscape danger: not a gentle valley but a sudden, severe drop.
The road hugged the khud for miles, with nothing between the verge and a sheer drop of several hundred feet.
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(India) A steep cleft in a hillside; a ravine.
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