About The Word Gutter

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Gutter

Gutter Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Gutter?
[n] a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
[v] provide with gutters, of buildings [v] wear or cut gutters into; "The heavy rain guttered the soil" [v] flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her face" [v] burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; "The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground" Synonyms | Synonyms for Gutter: trough Related Terms | Find terms related to Gutter: aqueduct | beat | beneath one | bicker | broad | canal | canalization | channel | cheap | chute | cloaca | cloaca maxima | coarse | crimp | cut | dance | debasing | degrading | demeaning | deplorable | dike | disgraceful | ditch | drain | earthy | eaves trough | entrenchment | flap | flick | flicker | flip | flit | flitter | flop | flutter | fosse | frank | go pitapat | goffer | gross | guide | ha-ha | headchute | humiliating | humiliative | infra dig | infra indignitatem | kennel | low | moat | opprobrious | outrageous | palpitate | penstock | pentrough | piscina | pitiful | pitter-patter | pleat | pulse | rank | raw | sad | scandalous | scupper | sewer | shameful | shocking | shoot | sink | slat | sluice | sorry | sough | splutter | sputter | sump | sunk fence | throb | too bad | trench | trough | unbecoming | uncouth | unworthy of one | vulgar | wave | waver See Also | burn | cater | chute | conduit | course | cullis | dig into | flow | gable roof | glow | ply | poke into | probe | provide | run | saddle roof | saddleback | saddleback roof | slide | slideway | sloping trough | supply Gutter In Webster's Dictionary \Gut"ter\, n. [OE. gotere, OF. goutiere, F. goutti[`e]re,
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. To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind. |
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