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Gutter   /gˈətər/   Listen
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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"Gutter" Quotes from Famous Books



... form: State of Qatar conventional short form: Qatar local long form: Dawlat Qatar local short form: Qatar note: closest approximation of the native pronunciation falls between cutter and gutter, but not ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... "It's only the gutter papers that print those horrid stories," Mrs. Shuster reproached me. "Why, they say things against Me sometimes! They say all I do is for self-advertisement. Did you ever hear such a wicked lie? But we Public Characters have to put up with a ...
— The Lightning Conductor Discovers America • C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel)

... evening; so as to run no risk of their robbing each other. The hive which is to be fed, should have the front edge of its bottom-board elevated on a block, so as to slant backwards, and the honey should be poured into a small tin gutter inserted at the entrance; one such will answer for a whole Apiary, and may be made by bending up the edges of any old piece of tin. As the frames in my hive are kept about half an inch above the bottom-board, which is water-tight, ...
— Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual • L. L. Langstroth

... strong and genteel look; the windows, all but a very few, had glass in every lozen, every shutter had a hole to let in the morning light, and each door had its little ford of stones running across the gutter that sped down the street, smelling fishily a bit, on its way to the shore. For me, in those days, each close that pierced the tall lands was as wide and high as a mountain eas, the street itself seemed broad and substantial, crowded with people worth kenning for their graces and the many ...
— John Splendid - The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn • Neil Munro

... was my only salvation. No, that would be cowardly now. I would wait until he was on his feet again, and then I would demand my old free life back once more. This existence that was dragging me into the gutter—this was not life! Life was a glorious, beautiful thing, and I would have it yet. I laid my plans, feverishly, and waited. He did not come back that night, or the next, or the next, or the next. In desperation I went to see the men at the office. No, they had ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber


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