Gutter : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Gutter	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Gutter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gutter n a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater Synonym(s): gutter, trough 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" Synonym(s): gutter, sewer, toilet a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) a tool for gutting fish v burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; "The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground" flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her face" wear or cut gutters into; "The heavy rain guttered the soil" provide with gutters; "gutter the buildings"
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[8a]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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. To supply with a gutter* or gutters. [R.] --Dryden.
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.