gutter

A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.

They a not so clean as they might be, since the water [is] carried off by only one gutter, in the centre of t[he] street

A ditch along the side of a road.

In nearly all of the towns the gutters are filled with vegetation, or have been neglected for so long a time that the roadway becomes its own drainage bed.

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.

A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.

You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time.

A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.

To flow or stream; to form gutters.

To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.

To flicker as if about to be extinguished.

The light in his eyes guttered like a candle in a mighty wind and finally went out. She had no time to grieve[…]

Alex's eyes gutter, and his face goes cold. He stands there mutely through my apology, stiff and frozen. I want to touch him, but I'm scared he'll flinch away.

To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.

To supply with a gutter or gutters.

A narrow flooring, guttered, walled, and tiled.

One who or that which guts.

A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.

An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter.