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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

... explain to me what a limb is?" The priest was known to be the best examiner on the island; he could begin in a gutter and end in ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... slow, gnawing starvation, when the reserve is gone, and every organ, every muscle, every nerve cries out for food—it is of the devil. The starving man is a brute, with no more moral sense than the gutter cat. His mind follows the same track—he ...

— Three Times and Out • Nellie L. McClung

... then set out to execute his commission. He had nearly reached his objective point when he met upon the street a young white lady, whom he did not know, and for whom, the path being narrow at that point, he stepped out into the gutter. He reached the house behind the cedars, went round to the back door, and handed the envelope to Mis' Molly, who was seated on the rear piazza, propped up by ...

— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt

... of the party was put into it on a chair, and slowly bumped and rattled past the corner of Dundonald Street—so named after the old sea-hero, who was, in his life-time, full of projects for utilizing this same pitch—and up in pitch road, with a pitch gutter ...

— Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) - Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky • Various

... I saw a horrid sight—a dead body that had been some time buried, torn from the grave, stripped of its shroud, and lying in the gutter. I shuddered, and asked the glazier if we had not better tell the authorities; but he hurried on, saying, "Better let it be. The authorities doubtless know all about it." So there had we to leave the ghastly object, though its remaining there was equally ...

— Jacques Bonneval • Anne Manning

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