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gut⋅ter
[guht-er] 
ər
–noun
–verb (used without object)
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water. |
| 2. | a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rain water. |
| 3. | any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid. |
| 4. | a furrow or channel made by running water. |
| 5. | Bowling. a sunken channel on each side of the alley from the line marking the limit of a fair delivery of the ball to the sunken area behind the pins. |
| 6. | the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.: the language of the gutter. |
| 7. | the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper. |
| 8. | to flow in streams. |
| 9. | (of a candle) to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick. |
| 10. | (of a lamp or candle flame) to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished. |
| 11. | to form gutters, as water does. |
| 12. | to make gutters in; channel. |
| 13. | to furnish with a gutter or gutters: to gutter a new house. |
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Language Translation for : Gutter
| Spanish: | arroyo, cuneta, canal, canalón, | German: | die Dachrinne, | Japanese: | 側溝 |
| gut·ter
(gŭt'ər) Pronunciation Key
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[Middle English goter, guter, from Old French gotier, from gote, drop, from Latin gutta.] Certain household words have proved important as markers for major U.S. dialect boundaries. The channels along the edge of a roof for carrying away rainwater (normally referred to in the plural) are variously known as eaves troughs or, less commonly, eaves spouts in parts of New England, the Great Lakes states, and, for the former, the West; spouting or rainspouts in eastern Pennsylvania and the Delmarva Peninsula; and gutters from Virginia southward. Along the Atlantic coast, the transition points have marked unusually clear boundaries for the three major dialect areas—Northern, Midland, and Southern—traditionally acknowledged by scholars of American dialects. Nowadays, however, Southern gutters seems to have become the standard U.S. term. According to the Dictionary of American Regional English, gutters has become well established in northern states along the Atlantic coast from Maine to New Jersey; in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri; and as far west as California. See Note at andiron. |
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gutter (n.)
1280, Anglo-Norman gotere, from O.Fr. guitere, from goute "a drop," from L. gutta. Originally "a watercourse," later "furrow made by running water" (1586). Meaning "trough under the eaves of a roof to carry off rainwater" is from 1354. Figurative sense of "low, profane" is from 1818.
gutter (v.)
1387, "to make or run in channels," from gutter (n.). In reference to candles (1706) it is from the channel that forms on the side as the molten wax flows off.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| gutter | |
noun | |
| 1. | a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater |
| 2. | 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" |
| 3. | a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) |
| 4. | a tool for gutting fish |
verb | |
| 1. | burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; "The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground" |
| 2. | flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her face" |
| 3. | wear or cut gutters into; "The heavy rain guttered the soil" |
| 4. | provide with gutters; "gutter the buildings" |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Main Entry: gut·ter
Pronunciation: 'g&t-&r
Function: noun
: a depressed furrow between body parts (as on the surface between a pair ofadjacent ribs or in the dorsal wall of the body cavity on either side of the spinal column)
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Gutter
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.Gutter
Gut"ter\, v. i. To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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