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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GUT'TER, n. [L. gutta, a drop.]
1. A channel for water; a hollow piece of timber, or a pipe, for catching and conveying off the water which drops from the eaves of a building.
2. A channel or passage for water; a hollow in the earth for conveying water; and,in popular usage, a channel worn in the earth by a current of water.
GUT'TER, v.t. To cut or form into small hollows.
GUT'TER, v.i. To be hollowed or channeled.
1. To run or sweat as a candle.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater [syn: gutter, trough]
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" [syn: gutter, sewer, toilet]
3: a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
4: a tool for gutting fish v
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"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English goter, from Anglo-French gutere, goter, from gute drop, from Latin gutta Date: 14th century 1. a. a trough along the eaves to catch and carry off rainwater b. a low area (as at the edge of a street) to carry off surface water (as to a sewer) c. a trough or groove to catch and direct something <the gutters of a bowling alley> 2. a white space formed by the adjoining inside margins of two facing pages (as of a book) 3. the lowest or most vulgar level or condition of human life II. verb Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to cut or wear gutters in 2. to provide with a gutter intransitive verb 1. a. to flow in rivulets b. of a candle to melt away through a channel out of the side of the cup hollowed out by the burning wick 2. to incline downward in a draft <the candle flame guttering> III. adjective Date: 15th century of, relating to, or characteristic of the gutter; especially marked by extreme vulgarity, cheapness, or indecency <gutter politics>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a shallow trough below the eaves of a house, or a channel at the side of a street, to carry off rainwater. 2 (prec. by the) a poor or degraded background or environment. 3 an open conduit along which liquid flows out. 4 a groove. 5 a track made by the flow of water. --v. 1 intr. flow in streams. 2 tr. furrow, channel. Phrases and idioms: gutter press sensational journalism concerned esp. with the private lives of public figures. Etymology: ME f. AF gotere, OF gotiere ult. f. L gutta drop

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gutter Gut*ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Guttering.] 1. To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. --Shak. 2. To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gutter Gut"ter, v. i. To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gutters) 1. The gutter is the edge of a road next to the pavement, where rain water collects and flows away. It is supposed to be washed down the gutter and into the city's vast sewerage system. N-COUNT: usu the N 2. A gutter is a plastic or metal channel fixed to the lower edge of the roof of a building, which rain water drains into. Did you fix the gutter? N-COUNT 3. If someone is in the gutter, they are very poor and live in a very bad way. Instead of ending up in jail or in the gutter he was remarkably successful. N-SING: the N 4. see also gutter press

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

gut'-er.

See HOUSE.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Channel, conduit, kennel.

Foolish Dictionary

A school in which we may study the dregs of humanity or read the reflection of the stars.

Moby Thesaurus

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