Entry Word: gutter

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof <one of his chores is to clean leaves and sticks out of the gutters before winter sets in>

Synonyms drainpipe, eaves trough, spout, trough, waterspout

Related Words drain, flume, sluice; conduit, duct

2 a long narrow channel dug in the earth <rainwater running off the road into the gutters> — see ditch