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guttering

 [guht-er-ing]  

gut·ter·ing

   [guht-er-ing]
noun
1.
the act of making gutters.
2.
material for making gutters.
3.
the gutters of an individual building.
4.
the melted wax or tallow of a candle.
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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English. See gutter, -ing1

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gut·ter

   [guht-er]
noun
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.
EXPAND
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.
COLLAPSE
verb (used without object)
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.
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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guttering (ˈɡʌtərɪŋ)
 
—n
1.  the gutters, downpipes, etc, that make up the rainwater disposal system on the outside of a building
2.  the materials used in this system

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