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noun

Gutter n.

1.

A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

2.

A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. "Gutters running with ale."

3.

Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

4.

(Bowling) Either of two sunken channels at either side of the bowling alley, leading directly to the sunken pit behind the pins. Balls not thrown accurately at the pins will drop into such a channel bypassing the pins, and resulting in a score of zero for that bowl.

Gutter member (Arch.), an architectural member made by treating the outside face of the gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement.

Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters.

Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. (Slang)

Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.

verb

Gutter v. t. (past & past part. guttered; pres. part. guttering)

1.

To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

2.

To supply with a gutter or gutters. (R.)

Gutter v. i. To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

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Etymology of 'Gutter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gutter" Quotes from Famous Books

... mothers must be also to look after them. They need care on these sweltering nights. A black little bullet-head peeped over the coping, and a thin—a painfully thin— brown leg was slid over on to the gutter pipe. There was a sharp clink of glass bracelets; a woman's arm showed for an instant above the parapet, twined itself round the lean little neck, and the child was dragged back, protesting, to the shelter of the bedstead. His ...

— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling

... is in the early hours of a summer afternoon as quiet and deserted as a cemetery. The stones are so heated that a cat that begins to cross the road lazily, stopping to stretch or examine something in the gutter, will suddenly start off at a rush as if a devil had ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... GUTTER-LEDGE. A cross-bar laid along the middle of a large hatchway in some vessels, to support the covers and enable them the better to sustain any ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... know more about it, Ruby. I won't have you go and throw yourself into the gutter;—not while ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

... wall so that the earth does not rest directly against the main wall of the house, but only against the outside wall or casing of the area. To form such an area, build a wall half or one brick thick parallel to and some 2 or 3 inches from the main wall, and form at the bottom a channel or gutter connected with the drains, so that any moisture or water finding its way in through the outer casing may be conducted away and will not therefore penetrate into the building. Thoroughly ventilate the areas by means of air bricks or other suitable connections ...

— Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 • Barkham Burroughs

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