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n. - A usually dry creek bed that sometimes fills up slightly in a wet season.

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  • coulie, and camped on the open prairie, about 250 feet from the brush in the coulie.
  • When they reached the foot of Birch coulie they saw the last of Major Brown's command going up the coulie.
  • He went over the spur and down into the valley of the creek from which the coulie branched up, in very bad ground.
  • I strode back; but at my first step they all stood up straight, with their absurd little tails held up in the air, and at the next step away they went, flying off a quarter of...
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