noun. A channel at the edge of a street or road for carrying off surface water.

noun. A trough fixed under or along the eaves for draining rainwater from a roof.

noun. A furrow or groove formed by running water.

noun. A trough or channel for carrying something off, such as that on either side of a bowling alley or that almost level with the water in some swimming pools.

noun. The white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages, as of a book.

noun. A degraded and squalid class or state of human existence.

intransitive verb. To form gutters or furrows in.

intransitive verb. To provide with gutters.

intransitive verb. To flow in channels or rivulets.

intransitive verb. To melt away through the side of the hollow formed by a burning wick. Used of a candle.

intransitive verb. To burn low and unsteadily; flicker.

adjective. Vulgar, sordid, or unprincipled.

To devour greedily.

noun. In turpentine-making, one of two thin bent strips of metal which are inserted in gashes cut into the face of a tree and serve to couduct resin into a cup.

noun. One who guts fish in dressing them.

To furrow, groove, or channel, as by the flow of a liquid.

To conduct off, as by a trough or gutter.

To provide with gutters: as, to gutter a house.

To become channeled by the flow of melted tallow or wax, as a burning candle.

To let fall drops, as of melted tallow from a candle.

noun. A narrow channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, at the sides of a road or a street, or elsewhere, for carrying off water or other fluid; a conduit; a trough.

noun. A furrow; especially, a furrow made by the action of water.

noun. A passageway; a secret passage.

noun. plural Mud; mire; dirt.

noun. In Australian gold-mining, the lower auriferous part of the channel of an old river of the Tertiary age, now often deeply covered by volcanic materials and detrital deposits.

noun. In printing, one of a number of pieces of wood or metal, channeled in the center with a groove or gutter, used to separate the pages of type in a form. Also gutter-stick.

noun. In entomology, any groove or elongate depression, especially when it serves as a receptacle for a part or an organ; specifically, a fold or deflexed and incurved space on the posterior wing of a lepidopterous insect, adjoining the inner edge, and embracing the abdomen from above downward when the wings are at rest.

noun. In cabinet-work, etc., a slight depression.

intransitive verb. To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

transitive verb. To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

transitive verb. To supply with a gutter or gutters.

noun. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

noun. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.

noun. Any narrow channel or groove.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters.

noun. a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab.

noun. one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.

noun. A ditch along the side of a road.

noun. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

noun. A grooves down the sides of a bowling lane.

noun. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.

noun. A space between printed columns of text.

noun. Something distasteful or morally questionable.

noun. A drainage channel.

noun. an unprinted space between rows of stamps.

noun. The part of a street meant for vehicles.

adjective. Suitable for the gutter; vulgar, disreputable.

verb. To flicker as if about to be extinguished.

"What else can they do when the gutter is the only way up?"

parallel gutter  parapet gutter  seminal gutter  valley gutter  

guttered  guttering  

bad luck  burn  cater  course  dig into  

Nutter  Sutter  aflutter  butter  clutter  

alley  canal  ditch  drain  gully  

aqueduct  beat  beneath one  bicker  broad  

guttered  guttering  gutters