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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

... 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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