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Gutter may refer to:

  • Rain gutter, A narrow channel which collects rainwater from the roof of a building and diverts it away from the structure, typically into a drain.
  • Street gutter, a depression which runs alongside a city street, usually at the curb and diverts rain and street-cleaning water away from the street and into a storm drain.

In sport

  • Gutters, in bowling and table shuffleboard, the trough hazards on either side of the playing lane into which the bowling ball or shuffleboard puck may fall

In business

  • The Gutter, a bar and bowling alley in Brooklyn, New York.

In design and printing

  • Gutter, the blank space, in editorial design, at which two pages come together in a two-page spread
  • Gutter, in typography, the blank space between facing pages. The space between columns of printed text, known as the alley, is sometimes also referred to as the gutter.
  • Gutter, in comics, the space between the panels of a comic strip or comic book page
  • Gutter (philately), the space between panes of postage stamps that creates configurations of "gutter pairs" or "gutter blocks"
  • Gutter, in interface design, the blank spaces that separate rows and columns in screen. Sometimes uses a small graphic file which has the background color to make space for layout.

1911 encyclopedia

Up to date as of January 14, 2010

From LoveToKnow 1911

GUTTER (0. Fr. goutiere, mod. gouttiere, from Lat. gutta,* drop), in architecture, a horizontal channel or trough contrived to carry away the water from a flat or sloping roof to its discharge down a vertical pipe or through a spout or gargoyle; more specifically, but loosely, the similar channel at the side of a street, below the pavement. In Greek and Roman temples the cymatium of the cornice was the gutter, and the water was discharged through the mouths of lions, whose heads were carved on the same. Sometimes the cymatium was not carried along the flanks of a temple, in which case the rain fell off the lower edge of the roof tiles. In medieval work the gutter rested partly on the top of the wall and partly on corbel tables, and the water was discharged through gargoyles. Sometimes, however, a parapet or pierced balustrade was carried on the corbel table enclosing the gutter. In buildings of a more ordinary class the parapet is only a continuation of the wall below, and the gutter is set back and carried in a trough resting on the lower end of the roof timbers. The safest course is to have an eaves gutter which projects more or less in front of the wall and is secured to and carried by the rafters of the roof. In Renaissance architecture generally the pierced balustrade of the Gothic and transition work was replaced by a balustrade with vertical balusters. In France a compromise was effected, whereby instead of the horizontal coping of the ordinary balustrade a richly carved cresting was employed, of which the earliest example is in the first court of the Louvre by Pierre Lescot. This exists throughout the French Renaissance, and it is one of its chief characteristic features.


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Bible wiki

Up to date as of January 23, 2010

From BibleWiki


Heb. tsinnor, (2 Sam. 5:8). This Hebrew word occurs only elsewhere in Ps. 42:7 in the plural, where it is rendered "waterspouts." It denotes some passage through which water passed; a water-course.

In Gen. 30:38, 41 the Hebrew word rendered "gutters" is rahat, and denotes vessels overflowing with water for cattle (Ex. 2:16); drinking-troughs.

This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.

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