| 单词 | gutter |
| 释义 | gutter —gutterlike, adj. /gut"euhr/, n. 1. a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water. 2. a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rain water. 3. any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid. 4. a furrow or channel made by running water. 5. Bowling. a sunken channel on each side of the alley from the line marking the limit of a fair delivery of the ball to the sunken area behind the pins. 6. the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.: the language of the gutter. 7. the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper. v.i. 8. to flow in streams. 9. (of a candle) to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick. 10. (of a lamp or candle flame) to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished. 11. to form gutters, as water does. v.t. 12. to make gutters in; channel. 13. to furnish with a gutter or gutters: to gutter a new house. [1250-1300; ME gutter, goter < AF goutiere, equiv. to goutte drop (see GOUT) + -iere, fem. of -ier -ER2] |
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