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▪ I. guttering, vbl. n.|ˈgʌtərɪŋ|
[f. gutter n.1 and v. + -ing1.]
1. Trenching, draining. Also attrib. Now dial.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. vi. 60 Now as the treen beth cladde in her estate ffor gutteryng to hewe is and to hent. 1789Trans. Soc. Arts VII. 63, I procured a draining or guttering plough. 1883in West Somerset Gloss.
2. a. The construction of gutters.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 163 Guttering, In Carpentry, is commonly done by the Lineal Foot. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 635 Sheet-lead used in roofing and guttering is commonly between 7 and 12 lbs. to the square foot.
b. concr. The material used for gutters; gutters collectively. Also U.S. Mining (see quot. 1883).
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 98 Lintelling, Guttering, Cornish..&c. at so much per Foot. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Guttering (Pa.), a channel or pipe cut along the side of a pit shaft to conduct the water not tubbed back into a lodge or sump. 1886Daily News 28 Dec. 6/1 Numerous houses were stripped of their guttering.
3. The making of grooves or furrows:
a. as a process in manufacture;
b. as an accidental result.
1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 359 During the fore⁓going operations the needles have severally become more or less crooked, especially in the guttering by hand. 1877Const. & Manuf. Ordnance xii. 299 Scoring or guttering was caused by the rush of gas round the projectile. 1934Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXVIII. 326 This raises the working temperature of the former and may eventually cause ‘blow past’ of the gases when the valve should normally be closed, finally leading to valve burning or ‘guttering’. 1948Shell Aviation News cxix. 17/2 The condition of the valve face was good, and there were no signs of definite guttering or blow-by.
4. Of a candle (see gutter v. 5); also concr. the melted tallow or wax which runs down.
1784–9M. Madan Persius (1795) 159 note, They stuck up candles or lamps, in their windows..and by their flaring and guttering they made the frames of the windows on which they stood all over grease. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men ii. xi. 316 The guttering from the wax candle..invaded his plate.
▪ II. guttering, ppl. a.|ˈgʌtərɪŋ|
[f. gutter v. + -ing2.]
That gutters.
1697Dryden Virg. æn. iii. 871 From his bor'd Eye the gutt'ring Blood he laves. 1862G. P. Scrope Volcanos 68 A run of wax or tallow in a ‘guttering’ candle. 1896A. Morrison Child of the Jago 10 A little heap of guttering grease, not long ago a candle. |