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noun

a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.

a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rain water.

any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid.

a furrow or channel made by running water.

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.

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the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.: the language of the gutter.

the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper.

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verb (used without object)

to flow in streams.

(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.

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to form gutters, as water does.

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verb (used with object)

12.

to make gutters in; channel.

13.

to furnish with a gutter or gutters: to gutter a new house.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English gutter, goter < Anglo-French goutiere, equivalent to goutte drop (see gout) + -iere, feminine of -ier -er²

Related forms

gut·ter·like, adjective

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Example Sentences

There are two types of gutter systems you can install: aluminum and vinyl.

It takes a second, but their minds as much in the gutter as ours are, and it hits home.

Pakistan's reputation is in the gutter as it is and more verbal abuse won't make any difference.

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There are two types of gutter systems you can install: aluminum and vinyl.

It takes a second, but their minds as much in the gutter as ours are, and it hits home.

Pakistan's reputation is in the gutter as it is and more verbal abuse won't make any difference.

Set the barrel up next to your gutter and mark where you need to cut to make the downspout flow directly into the inlet hole.

But instead of exporting the spirits out of the country, revolutionary guards poured the entire stock down the gutter.

Nearby, three photos of a child's birthday party floated in a water-filled gutter.

If you don't have one, you can lay a board across the top of the gutter.

In front of each kennel cage, was a gutter of pee that flowed in a steady stream.

They huddle in small groups, cloaks pulled over their heads, in an open gutter.

One suggesting that lending a hand to someone in the gutter might be the same as helping a friend.

Together they provide a striking testament to how long people have been throwing their garbage into the gutter of this city.

Never mind if that gutter is streaming from a cloudburst.

Time to finally hold the gutter tabloids accountable for the pollution they produce.

When you leak radiator fluid into a gutter it makes it's way into the water and back into the creatures that live in the water.

As the rains gushes from your gutter to the drain below,.

Clogged downspouts or dry wells that force water to back up into the gutter system have much the same.

About how she used needles out of the gutter to shoot heroin.

The window openings have a interior gutter to direct rain to the awning.

As a rule, they end up in the gutter as drunks or drug addicts”.

Damaged gutter sections should be patched or replaced.

To simplify reinstallation, measure and record the highest and lowest points along a gutter trough.

Jane would have thought it a descent into the gutter.

Li occurred amid a nationwide crackdown on so-called gutter oil that has transfixed, and repulsed, the nation.

Gutter will absolutely help this situation as will some good neighborly talking to the neighbors.

You're repeatedly dragged from the comedic gutter up to the high ground and back again.

Exterior painting, roof repair and gutter cleaner can be done from a step.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

gutter (ˈɡʌtə)

—n
1.	a channel along the eaves or on the roof of a building, used to collect and carry away rainwater
2.	a channel running along the kerb or the centre of a road to collect and carry away rainwater
3.	a trench running beside a canal lined with clay puddle
4.	either of the two channels running parallel to a tenpin bowling lane
5.	printing
	a. the space between two pages in a forme
	b. the white space between the facing pages of an open book
	c. the space between two columns of type
6.	the space left between stamps on a sheet in order to separate them
7.	surfing a dangerous deep channel formed by currents and waves
8.	(Austral) (in gold-mining) the channel of a former watercourse that is now a vein of gold
9.	the gutter a poverty-stricken, degraded, or criminal environment

—vb
10.	(tr) to make gutters in
11.	(intr) to flow in a stream or rivulet
12.	(intr) (of a candle) to melt away by the wax forming channels and running down in drops
13.	(intr) (of a flame) to flicker and be about to go out

[C13: from Anglo-French goutiere, from Old French goute a drop, from Latin gutta]

'gutter-like

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

gutter

late 13c., Anglo-Norman gotere, from O.Fr. guitere, from goute "a drop," from L. gutta. Originally "a watercourse," later "furrow made by running water" (1580s). Meaning "trough under the eaves of a roof to carry off rainwater" is from mid-14c. Figurative sense of "low, profane" is from 1818.

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gutter

late 14c., "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.

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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Gutter definition

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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Idioms & Phrases

gutter

see in the gutter.

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