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GUTTERING
Noun
guttering (usually uncountable, plural gutterings)
Gutters collectively.
Verb
guttering
present participle of gutter
Adjective
guttering
(of a small flame) flickering and about to be extinguished
Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
Source: Wiktionary
GUTTER
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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