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Gutter

noun

A channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater. Synonym: trough.

Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money. Synonyms: sewer, toilet. "All that work went down the sewer" , "Pensions are in the toilet"

A worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.).

A tool for gutting fish.

verb

(past & past part. guttered; pres. part. guttering)

Burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker.

Flow in small streams.

Wear or cut gutters into.

Provide with gutters.

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"Gutter" Quotes from Famous Books

... erections more like ordinary human habitations, the place might have passed for a gigantic rabbit-warren. As we drove through we saw some of the villagers engaged in slaughtering calves and sheep in the middle of the road, the blood running down into a self-made gutter; it was a sickening sight. The people themselves have a most peculiar physiognomy, especially the men, who in addition to long beards wear corkscrew ringlets, which give them a very odd appearance. Their principal garment ...

— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse

... frankfurter-sausage sandwich from off a not quite immaculate push-cart, leaning forward as she bit into it to save herself from the ooze of mustard. Again she had the sense of Cora Kinealy hurrying along the opposite side of the street on the tall heels that clicked. She let fall the bun into the gutter and stood there trembling. ...

— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst

... left his hat in the house of Secretary Seward, he had made one out of the sleeve of a shirt or the leg of a drawers, pulling it over his head like a turban. He said he wished to see Mrs. Surratt, and when asked what he came that time of night for, he replied he came to dig a gutter, as Mrs. Surratt had sent for him in the morning. When asked where he boarded, he said he had no boarding house, that he was a poor man, who got his living with the pick. Mr. Morgan asked him why he came at that hour of the night to go to ...

— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith

... working manfully. 'My fault'—'sudden squall'—'quite safe', were some of the phrases I caught; while I was aware, to my alarm, that he was actually drawing a diagram of something with bread-crumbs and table-knives. The subject seemed to gutter out to an awkward end, and suddenly Bhme, who was my right-hand neighbour, turned to me. 'You are starting for England ...

— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers

... "when a woman has outraged the poor weak heart of one of the waifs whom fate flings into the gutter, he sometimes throws a cup of vitriol into her face, saying, 'If she is not for me, she is not for another;' or 'Where she has sinned, there let her suffer.' That is revenge; it is the feeble device of a man who thinks in his simple soul that when beauty is gone loathing is at ...

— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine

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