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G — Gulistan to Gutter Lane (Part 3 of 3)

Gutter Out of the gutter. Of low birth; of the street-Arab class; one of the submerged.

Gutter Children Street Arabs.

Gutter Lane (London). A corruption of Guthurun Lane, from a Mr. Guthurun, Goderoune, or Guthrum, who, as Stow informs us, "possessed the chief property therein." (See Guthrum.)
   All goes down Gutter Lane. He spends everything on his stomach. The play is between Gutter Lane, London, and guttur (the throat), preserved in our word guttural (a throat letter).