GUTTER

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

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Etymology 1

Noun

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

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

One who or that which guts.

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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