'Gutter' definitions:

Definition of 'gutter'

From: WordNet
noun
A channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater [syn: gutter, trough]
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" [syn: gutter, sewer, toilet]
noun
A worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
noun
A tool for gutting fish
verb
Burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; "The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground"
verb
Flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her face"
verb
Wear or cut gutters into; "The heavy rain guttered the soil"
verb
Provide with gutters; "gutter the buildings"

Definition of 'Gutter'

From: GCIDE
  • Gutter \Gut"ter\, n. [OE. gotere, OF. goutiere, F. goutti[`e]re, fr. OF. gote, goute, drop, F. goutte, fr. L. gutta.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. [1913 Webster]
  • Gutters running with ale. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [PJC]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gutter'

From: GCIDE
  • Gutter \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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gutter'

From: GCIDE
  • Gutter \Gut"ter\, v. i. To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Gutter'

From: Easton
  • Gutter Heb. tsinnor, (2 Sam. 5:8). This Hebrew word occurs only elsewhere in Ps. 42:7 in the plural, where it is rendered "waterspouts." It denotes some passage through which water passed; a water-course.
  • In Gen. 30:38, 41 the Hebrew word rendered "gutters" is _rahat_, and denotes vessels overflowing with water for cattle (Ex. 2:16); drinking-troughs.

Synonyms of 'gutter'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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