<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.</li><li>a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rainwater.</li><li>any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid.</li><li>a furrow or channel made by running water.</li><li>Bowling: a sunken channel extending along each side of a bowling lane, to catch balls that stray over the edge.</li><li>the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.: the language of the gutter.</li><li>the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to flow in streams.</li><li>(of a candle) to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick.</li><li>(of a lamp or candle flame) to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished.</li><li>to form gutters, as water does.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to make gutters in; channel.</li><li>to furnish with a gutter or gutters: to gutter a new house.</li></ul>