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Definitions for Guttering

[1] the act of making gutters.
[2] material for making gutters.
[3] the gutters of an individual building.
[4] the melted wax or tallow of a candle.
[5] a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
[6] a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rain water.
[7] any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid.
[8] a furrow or channel made by running water.
[9] 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.
[10] the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.: the language of the gutter.
[11] the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper.
[12] to flow in streams.
[13] (of a candle) to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick.
[14] (of a lamp or candle flame) to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished.
[15] to form gutters, as water does.
[16] to make gutters in; channel.
[17] to furnish with a gutter or gutters: to gutter a new house.
[18] the gutters, downpipes, etc, that make up the rainwater disposal system on the outside of a building
[19] the materials used in this system
[20] a channel along the eaves or on the roof of a building, used to collect and carry away rainwater
[21] a channel running along the kerb or the centre of a road to collect and carry away rainwater
[22] a trench running beside a canal lined with clay puddle
[23] either of the two channels running parallel to a tenpin bowling lane
[24] printing the space between two pages in a forme the white space between the facing pages of an open book the space between two columns of type
[25] the space left between stamps on a sheet in order to separate them
[26] surfing a dangerous deep channel formed by currents and waves
[27] Australian (in gold-mining) the channel of a former watercourse that is now a vein of gold
[28] the gutter a poverty-stricken, degraded, or criminal environment
[29] (tr) to make gutters in
[30] (intr) to flow in a stream or rivulet
[31] (intr) (of a candle) to melt away by the wax forming channels and running down in drops
[32] (intr) (of a flame) to flicker and be about to go out

Words related to Guttering

duck, lunge, plunge, drop, jump, leap, plummet, swoop, fall, vault, vanish, dip, disappear, nose-dive, gutter, spring, plumb, header, submerge, pitch

Words nearby Guttering

gutter, gutter ball, gutter fracture, gutter press, gutter wound, guttering, guttersnipe, guttiform, guttle, guttural, gutturalize

Origin of Guttering

1250–1300; Middle English gutter, goter < Anglo-French goutiere, equivalent to goutte drop (see gout) + -iere, feminine of -ier -er2

Other words from Guttering

gut·ter·like , adjective

Word origin for Guttering

C13: from Anglo-French goutiere, from Old French goute a drop, from Latin gutta

Synonyms for Guttering

dip, disappear, drop, duck, fall, jump, leap, lunge, nose-dive, plummet, plunge, swoop, vanish, vault, gutter, header, pitch, plumb, spring, submerge, belly flop, go headfirst