gutter
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Is gutter a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.Examples: "You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time."
2. (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
3. (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
4. (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
5. (British) A drainage channel.British
6. (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.Examples: "Get your mind out of the gutter."; "What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap."; "Lord Darlington. No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.Synonyms: cloam
2. (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.Examples: "The light in his eyes guttered like a candle in a mighty wind and finally went out. She had no time to grieve[…]"; "Alex's eyes gutter, and his face goes cold. He stands there mutely through my apology, stiff and frozen. I want to touch him, but I'm scared he'll flinch away."
3. (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.transitive
4. (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.Examples: "A narrow flooring, guttered, walled, and tiled."transitive
5. (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.Examples: "The gutter'd-Rockes, and Congregated Sands,"transitive
6. (transitive, uncommon) To make worse; to show emphasis that something has gotten worse.Examples: "The students' performance guttered after the school event."; "The patient's state would soon gutter."transitiveuncommon
Definition source: Wiktionary