[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gutter \gutter\, v. t. imp.  p. p. guttered; p. pr.  vb.
   n. guttering.
   1. to cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to
      channel. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to supply with a gutter or gutters. r. --dryden.
      1913 webster
see also:
guttered guttering 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gutter \gut"ter\, v. i.
   to become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the
   wind.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gutter \gut"ter\, n. oe. gotere, of. goutiere, f. goutti`ere,
   fr. of. gote, goute, drop, f. goutte, fr. l. gutta.
   1913 webster
   1. a channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the
      rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
      1913 webster

   2. a small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off
      surface water.
      1913 webster

            gutters running with ale.             --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   3. any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by
      erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
      1913 webster

   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.
      pjc

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
gutter member gutter plane gutter snipe gutter stick 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gutter
     n 1: a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and
          carries away rainwater syn: 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: 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"
see also:
trough sewer toilet 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[6] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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.
   

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