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Another word for gutter

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Noun

  1. A ditch

      1. A long, narrow, generally shallow receptacle for holding water or feed for animals.
      2. Any of various similar containers for domestic or industrial use, such as kneading or washing.
      3. A gutter under the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.
      1. A deep wide ditch, usually filled with water, typically surrounding a fortified medieval town, fortress, or castle as a protection against assault.
      2. A ditch similar to one surrounding a fortification:
      3. To surround with or as if with a moat.
      1. To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process:
      2. To cause liquid to go out from; empty:
      3. To draw off the surface water of:
      1. An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods.
      2. A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.
      3. A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection.
      1. The bed of a stream or river.
      2. The deeper part of a river or harbor, especially a deep navigable passage.
      3. A broad strait, especially one that connects two seas.
      1. A natural or artificial channel through which water flows.
      2. A stream or river.
      1. An artificial, usually underground conduit for carrying off sewage or rainwater.
      1. A deep ditch or channel cut in the earth by running water after a prolonged downpour.
      2. To wear a deep ditch or channel in.
      3. To form a deep ditch or channel.
      1. A rivulet; a brook.
      2. A narrow channel or course, as for water.
      1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
      2. A tube, duct, or passageway.
      3. One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.
    See also:

    trench

  2. A drain for a roof

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Sentence Examples

  • the line of intersection forming a descending gutter which runs to the outlet.

  • Morbid curiosity drew her from the gutter to the highway.

  • According to Brunnow, King William, by using his influence to secure the passage of the Reform Bill, had cast his crown into the gutter; the throne might endure for his lifetime, but the next heir was a young and inexperienced girl, and, even were the princess Victoria ever to mount the thronewhich was unlikely she would be speedily swept off it again by the rising tide of republicanism.

  • For the controversies of the Reformation were conducted by both sides, from kings and prelates down to gutter pamphleteers, in language of the most unseemly violence.

  • (Dutch sloot) ditch, gutter, small stream.

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