[guht-er] 
| 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. |
| gut·ter (gŭt'ər) n.
v. tr.
[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. |
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.
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