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      gutter
      noun
      A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
      A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
      A ditch along the side of a road.
      A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
      (British) A drainage channel.
      The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
      (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
      (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
      (comics) A space between comic strip panels.
      Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
      (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
      (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
      (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
      One who or that which guts.
      A surname.
      verb
      (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
      (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
      (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
      To flow or stream; to form gutters.
      (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
      (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
      (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably.
      Roots
      guttagutter- · Latin · drop
      Synonyms for gutter
      sewerntroughnsumpnditchncloacan
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