gutter
(gʌtəʳ )
Word forms: gutters , guttering, guttered
1. countable noun
The gutter is the edge of a road next to the pavement, where rain water collects and flows away.
It is supposed to be washed down the gutter and into the city's vast sewerage system.
Synonyms: drain, channel, tube, pipe
2. countable noun
A gutter is a plastic or metal channel fixed to the lower edge of the roof of a building, which rain water drains into.
Did you fix the gutter?
3. singular noun
If someone is in the gutter, they are very poor and live in a very bad way.
Instead of ending up in jail or in the gutter he was remarkably successful.
4. verb
If a flame gutters, it burns weakly and unsteadily. [literary]
The flames guttered. [VERB]
...a guttering candle. [VERB-ing]
5. See also gutter press
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HOUSE: EXTERIOR roof chimney window aerial shutter gutter gate drainpipe gable front door garage driveway Collocations:
roof gutter
She doesn't recognize him as her former suitor and tells him she spent five years in the roof gutter soaked with rain before falling into the dustbin.
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Down past my balcony runs a cast-iron drainpipe from the roof gutters.
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If you have a rickety ladder and vertigo, patching the roof guttering may be overly ambitious.
The Sun
The apples were scattered over a small stretch of road as well as gardens and roof gutters, and were battered and bruised after apparently falling from a great height.
Times, Sunday Times
Trees were downed and some roof gutters damaged.
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Translations:
Chinese: 排水沟路边的
Japanese: 溝
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