Citations:gutter
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English citations of gutter
Noun: part of a street for draining water, but near enough to where vehicles travel that they have to swerve
[edit]- 1998, Denis Hamill, 3 Quarters, 1999 Pocket Books edition, →ISBN, page 91 [1]:
- Bobby stood in the middle of the gutter, traffic swerving around him.
- 2010 August 31, Anne Hart, "Sacramento County Children's Report Card says 34% of teens 13-16 are overweight or obese", Sacramento Nutrition Examiner (blog) [2]:
- If you don't want your kids to play softball in the middle of the gutter full of traffic, you need parks.
Cataract (waterfall)
[edit]- 1952, some translator modernizing Richard Rolle's Psalm 41, in Life of the Spirit (1946-1964) (Cambridge University Press), vol. 6, no. 69, Bible & Liturgy (March 1952), p. 395-396:
- Deepness incalleth deepness : in voice of thy gutters [Latin: cataractarum]. I am letted (i.e., hindered) and dreary for deepness, that is the doom […]