3. 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.
Gutter
(Gut*ter), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guttered (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Guttering.]
1. To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. Shak.
2. To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] Dryden.
Gutter
(Gut"ter), v. i. To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.