gutter Definition

gutter
noun

1. A channel for carrying away rainwater, fixed to the edge of a roof or built between a pavement and a road.

Thesaurus: ditch, canal, runnel, gully, trench, channel, trough, sluice.
2. ten-pin bowling.
Either of the channels at the sides of a lane.
3. A state of poverty and social deprivation or of coarse and degraded living.

Form: the gutter
4. printing.
The inner margins between two facing pages.

verb guttered, guttering

intr
1. Said of a candle: to have its melted wax, etc suddenly pour down a channel which forms on its side.
2. Said of a flame: to flicker and threaten to go out.
3. To wear away channels in something.
intr
4. To trickle.

Etymology: 13c: from French goutiere, from goute drop.