Gut″ter (?), n. [OE. gotere, OF. goutiere, F. gouttière, fr. OF. gote, goute, drop, F. goutte, fr. L. gutta.]
1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.
Gutters running with ale. Macaulay.
3. Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
Gutter member(Arch.), an architectural member made by treating the outside face of the gutter in a decorative fashion, or by crowning it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. — Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters. — Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. — Gutter stick(Printing), one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.