gutter, trough
(noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
gutter
(noun) a tool for gutting fish
gutter
(noun) a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
gutter, sewer, toilet
(noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; “his career was in the gutter”; “all that work went down the sewer”; “pensions are in the toilet”
gutter
(verb) provide with gutters; “gutter the buildings”
gutter
(verb) wear or cut gutters into; “The heavy rain guttered the soil”
gutter
(verb) flow in small streams; “Tears guttered down her face”
gutter
(verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; “The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gutter (plural gutters)
A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
A ditch along the side of a road.
A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
(bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
(typography) A space between printed columns of text.
(printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
(British) A drainage channel.
The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
(figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
(comics) The spaces between comic book panels
gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)
To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
(of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
(of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
(transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
(transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
(transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
gutter (plural gutters)
One who or that which guts.
Source: Wiktionary
Gut"ter, n. Etym: [OE. gotere, OF. goutiere, F. gouttière, fr. OF. gote, goute, drop, F. goutte, fr. L. gutta.]
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. Macaulay.
3. Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing. 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.
Gut*ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Guttering.]
1. To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. Shak.
2. To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] Dryden.
Gut"ter, v. i.
Definition: To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
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