- a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
- a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rainwater.
- any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid.
- a furrow or channel made by running water.
- a sunken channel extending along each side of a bowling lane, to catch balls that stray over the edge.
- the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.: the language of the gutter.
- the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper.
- to flow in streams.
- (of a candle) to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick.
- (of a lamp or candle flame) to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished.
- to form gutters, as water does.
- to make gutters in; channel.
- to furnish with a gutter or gutters: to gutter a new house.
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof of a building, used to collect and carry away rainwater
- a channel running along the kerb or the centre of a road to collect and carry away rainwater
- a trench running beside a canal lined with clay puddle
- either of the two channels running parallel to a tenpin bowling lane
- printing
- the space between two pages in a forme
- the white space between the facing pages of an open book
- the space between two columns of type
- the space left between stamps on a sheet in order to separate them
- a dangerous deep channel formed by currents and waves
- (in gold-mining) the channel of a former watercourse that is now a vein of gold
- a poverty-stricken, degraded, or criminal environment
- to make gutters in
- to flow in a stream or rivulet
- (of a candle) to melt away by the wax forming channels and running down in drops
- (of a flame) to flicker and be about to go out
