Gutter
['gʌtə] or ['gʌtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater.
(noun.) a tool for gutting fish.
(noun.) a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.).
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) provide with gutters; 'gutter the buildings'.
(verb.) wear or cut gutters into; 'The heavy rain guttered the soil'.
(verb.) flow in small streams; 'Tears guttered down her face'.
(verb.) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; 'The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground'.
Typed by Jennifer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
(n.) A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.
(n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
(v. t.) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
(v. t.) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
(v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
Edited by Beverly
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Channel, conduit.
Edited by Dwight
Definition
n. a channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away water: a channel for water: (print.) one of a number of pieces of wood or metal grooved in the centre used to separate the pages of type in a form: (pl.) mud dirt (Scot.).—v.t. to cut or form into small hollows.—v.i. to become hollowed: to run down in drops as a candle.—ns. Gutt′er-blood a low-born person; Gutt′er-snipe a neglected child a street Arab.—adj. Guttif′erous exuding gum or resin.
Checker: Seymour
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a gutter, is a sign of degradation. You will be the cause of unhappiness to others. To find articles of value in a gutter, your right to certain property will be questioned.
Typed by Ernestine
Unserious Contents or Definition
A school in which we may study the dregs of humanity or read the reflection of the stars.
Inputed by Artie
Examples
- Yours is not the nature to find pleasure in gutter-raking. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Gutter, says Phil. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That's the trouble--it was too easy for you--you got reckless--thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Water was running in the gutter. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- On the leveling strips at the extreme side of where the bed is to lie, a 3 x 1-inch maple strip is laid, widest side downward, with its finished one-inch edge nearest to the gutter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Here is a man, sir, who was found, when a baby, in the gutter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From this center gutter debouches branch to each of the pockets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- As the pins are knocked off into the gutters, or the pit, the pin boy picks them up and lays them flat on their sides into the pockets at the top of the machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are ingenious devices, termed the return gutters and convertible rails, which are worthy of description. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The gutters are the concave boards that extend the complete length of the alley, from the foul line to the pit, on both sides of the bed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I used to do so, on the gutters, when I was a boy,' replied Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The candles flared and guttered before her, and the wax ex-votos hung about the shrine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Because the candle was not guttered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Typed by Jeanette