Meaning

• A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.

• A ditch along the side of a road.

• A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

  "The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year."

• A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.

• A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.

• Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

• A space between printed columns of text.

• One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.

• An unprinted space between rows of stamps.

• A drainage channel.

• The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.

• A low, vulgar state.

  "Get your mind out of the gutter."

• The spaces between comic book panels

Meaning

• To flow or stream; to form gutters.

• (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.

• (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.

• To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.

• To supply with a gutter or gutters.

• To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.