Gulf

1. n. A large deposit of ore in a lode.
2. n. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,
3. n. That which swallows; the gullet.
4. n. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
5. n. A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.