as in gutter
a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof heavy rains had left a large puddle at the base of the rainspout

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  • Clean gutters at least twice a year and check the base of downspouts to make sure water can flow freely.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
  • With the prior landscaping experience, he was assigned outdoor duties ranging from climbing onto the roof to clean gutters, to scraping sediment from a parking lot, laying pine straw, and grinding paint from a stairwell.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Rainspout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainspout. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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