Usually means: Steep-sided valley formed by water.
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  1. coulee: Merriam-Webster
  2. coulee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coulee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coulee: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Coulee, coulee: Wordnik
  6. coulee: Wiktionary
  7. coulee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. coulee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. coulee: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Coulee, coulee: Dictionary.com
  11. coulee: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Coulee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Coulee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. coulee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Coulee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. coulee: FreeDictionary.org
  17. coulee: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. coulee: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Coulee)

noun:  A stream, especially one in the western US or Canada, generally smaller than a bayou; it may (or may not) run dry in summer, may be sluggish, shallow, and wide (forming in effect a pond or slough), or may have cut a deep gulch or ravine.
noun:  (Mississippi Delta region) A reach of water in a bayou that is like a slough but deeper.
noun:  (geology) A lava flow (whether molten or solidified).
noun:  The Rural Municipality of Coulee No. 136, a rural municipality in south-west Saskatchewan, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Mountrail County, North Dakota, United States.

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