Eavestrough vs. Gutter

Eavestroughnoun

A trough under the eaves of a building for draining water from the roof; gutter.

Gutternoun

A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.

Gutternoun

A ditch along the side of a road.

Gutternoun

A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

Gutternoun

(bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.

Gutternoun

A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.

Gutternoun

Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

Gutternoun

(typography) A space between printed columns of text.

Gutternoun

(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.

Gutternoun

(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.

Gutternoun

(British) A drainage channel.

Gutternoun

The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.

Gutternoun

(figuratively) A low, vulgar state.

Gutternoun

(comics) The spaces between comic book panels

Gutternoun

One who or that which guts.

Gutterverb

To flow or stream; to form gutters.

Gutterverb

(of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.

Gutterverb

(of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.

Gutterverb

(transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.

Gutterverb

(transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

Gutterverb

(transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

Gutternoun

A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

Gutternoun

A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.

Gutternoun

Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

Gutternoun

Either of two sunken channels at either side of the bowling alley, leading directly to the sunken pit behind the pins. Balls not thrown accurately at the pins will drop into such a channel bypassing the pins, and resulting in a score of zero for that bowl.

Gutterverb

To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

Gutterverb

To supply with a gutter or gutters.

Gutterverb

To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

Gutternoun

a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater

Gutternoun

misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;

Gutternoun

a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)

Gutternoun

a tool for gutting fish

Gutterverb

burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker;

Gutterverb

flow in small streams;

Gutterverb

wear or cut gutters into;

Gutterverb

provide with gutters;

Gutternoun

a shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.

Gutternoun

a channel at the side of a street for carrying off rainwater.

Gutternoun

used to refer to a poor or squalid existence or environment

Gutternoun

a groove or channel for flowing liquid.

Gutternoun

a channel on either side of a lane in a bowling alley.

Gutternoun

the blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in a sheet.

Gutterverb

(of a candle or flame) flicker and burn unsteadily.

Gutterverb

make channels or furrows in (something)

Gutterverb

flow in streams