gutter

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English

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paved street, gutter and storm drain, curb

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman guttere, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin gutta (“drop”)

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

  1. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
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  2. A ditch along the side of a road.
    • 1902, Massachusetts. Highway Commission, Annual Report of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, volume 9:
      In nearly all of the towns the gutters are filled with vegetation, or have been neglected for so long a time that the roadway becomes its own drainage bed.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
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  3. 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.
  4. (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
  5. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
  6. Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
  7. (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
  8. (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.
  9. (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
  10. (British) A drainage channel.
  11. The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
  12. (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.
  13. (comics) The spaces between comic book panels
Derived terms
Terms derived from gutter

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Descendants
  • Sranan Tongo: gotro
Translations
space between columns in text
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See also

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Verb

gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)

  1. To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
  2. (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
  3. (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
  4. (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
  5. (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
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  6. (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
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Translations
to cut or form into small longitudinal hollows — see channel

Etymology 2

gut +‎ -er

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

  1. 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.

Danish

Noun

gutter c

  1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of gut

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

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Noun

gutter m

  1. indefinite plural of gutt
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