gutter
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
gutter (plural gutters)
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (British) A drainage channel.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- Get your mind out of the gutter.
- What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.
- (comics) The spaces between comic book panels
- French: caniveau
- German: Rinne, Graben, Straßengraben
- Italian: botola, botola di drenaggio, canale di scolo, canale di drenaggio, zanella, cunetta
- Portuguese: valeta
- Russian: кюве́т
- Spanish: cuneta
- French: gouttière, chéneau
- German: Dachrinne, Regenrinne
- Italian: grondaia
- Portuguese: calha, algeroz, agueiro, canaleta
- Russian: жёлоб
- Spanish: canalón
- French: dalot
- Portuguese: canaleta
- German: Spaltenabstand
- Italian: interstizio
- Spanish: medianil
- Italian: intervallo, margine interno
- German: Gosse
gutter (gutters, present participle guttering; past and past participle guttered)
- To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
- (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- German: ausspülen
gutter (plural gutters)
- One who or that which guts.
- 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
- A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.
- 2013, Don Keith, Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)
- An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter.
- 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
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