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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gutter \Gut"ter\, v. i. To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gutter \Gut"ter\, n. [OE. gotere, OF goutiere F. goutti[`e]re, fr OF gote, goute, drop, F. goutte, fr L. gutta.] 1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. --Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove; as a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing. {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] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gutter n : a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater [syn: {trough}] v 1: burn unsteadily, feebly, or low flicker 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, of buildings From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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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