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guttered, ppl. a.|ˈgʌtəd| [f. gutter n.1 and v. + -ed.] 1. Furrowed; grooved; fluted; gullied.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 88 Euery lefe [of the Pine tree] is..furrowed or guttered as sum kynde of yong grasse is. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 69 The gutter'd Rockes, and Congregated Sands. 1662Gerbier Princ. (1665) 5 The Guttered Colombs. 1678Young Serm. at Whitehall 29 Dec. 24 We will not advert the Gutter'd Cheeks, and Passionate Mournings..of the Primitive Penitents. 1696Derham Artificial Clock-m. 3 The guttered Wheel, with Iron spikes at the bottom, in which the line of ordinary House-Clocks doth run, is called the Pully. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 816 The gutter'd rocks and mazy-running clefts. 1884Harper's Mag. Nov. 850/2 Jehan and Pierre have greased guttered boards, which they slip under the keel. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVII. 202/1 Skate blades deeply grooved, or ‘guttered’, as it is termed. 2. Of a candle (see gutter v. 5).
1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. i. viii, Looking as irrelevant to the daylight as a last night's guttered candle. 1863W. Lancaster Praeterita 38 We have not much more light to spend, Two guttered ends of tallow. 3. Furnished with or having gutters.
1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxi. 76 The guttered pent-houses..are large. |