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| 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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