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Gutter   /gˈətər/   Listen
Gutter

noun
1.
A channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater.  Synonym: trough.
2.
Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money.  Synonyms: sewer, toilet.  "All that work went down the sewer" , "Pensions are in the toilet"
3.
A worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.).
4.
A tool for gutting fish.
verb
(past & past part. guttered; pres. part. guttering)
1.
Burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker.
2.
Flow in small streams.
3.
Wear or cut gutters into.
4.
Provide with gutters.



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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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