gutter

Definitions

1. 1.A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay.
2. 2.Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing. Gutter member (Arch.), an architectural member made by treating the outside face of the gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. -- Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.
3. 3.To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. Shak.
4. 4.To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] Dryden.
5. 5.To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is gutter.

• What is a small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay called?
• What is to cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. Shak called?
• What is to supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] Dryden called?
• What is to become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind called?