Gut"ter (?), n. [OE. gotere, OF. goutiere, F. gouttiere, 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] -- Gutter stick Printing, one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.
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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.
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Gut"ter, v. i.
To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
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