gutter

gutter
    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"
    

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.
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   2. To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] --Dryden.
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Gutter \Gut"ter\, v. i.
   To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the
   wind.
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Gutter \Gut"ter\, n. [OE. gotere, OF. goutiere, F. goutti[`e]re,
   fr. OF. gote, goute, drop, F. goutte, fr. L. gutta.]
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   1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the
      rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
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   2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off
      surface water.
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            Gutters running with ale.             --Macaulay.
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   3. Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by
      erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
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   4. (Bowling) Either of two sunken channels at either side of
      the bowling alley, leading directly to the sunken pit
      behind the pins. Balls not thrown accurately at the pins
      will drop into such a channel bypassing the pins, and
      resulting in a score of zero for that bowl.
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   {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]

   {Gutter stick} (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture
      which separate pages in a form.
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Gutter
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.
    

88 Moby Thesaurus words for "gutter":
      aqueduct, beat, beneath one, bicker, broad, canal, canalization,
      channel, cheap, chute, cloaca, cloaca maxima, coarse, crimp, cut,
      dance, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, dike,
      disgraceful, ditch, drain, earthy, eaves trough, entrenchment,
      flap, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, flop, flutter, fosse,
      frank, go pitapat, goffer, gross, guide, ha-ha, headchute,
      humiliating, humiliative, infra dig, infra indignitatem, kennel,
      low, moat, opprobrious, outrageous, palpitate, penstock, pentrough,
      piscina, pitiful, pitter-patter, pleat, pulse, rank, raw, sad,
      scandalous, scupper, sewer, shameful, shocking, shoot, sink, slat,
      sluice, sorry, sough, splutter, sputter, sump, sunk fence, throb,
      too bad, trench, trough, unbecoming, uncouth, unworthy of one,
      vulgar, wave, waver