Crossword-Solution: GUTTER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gutter | n. | A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. |
| Gutter | n. | A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. |
| Gutter | n. | Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing. |
| Gutter | v. t. | To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. |
| Gutter | v. t. | To supply with a gutter or gutters. |
| Gutter | v. i. | To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with GUTTER (5)
The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter—the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer.
Thence, swelling over the rim of moss-grown stones, the water stole away under the fence, through what we regret to call a gutter, rather than a channel.
What took the honest knight from home? or what could he expect but to find his mistress agreeably engaged with a rival on his return, and his serenade, as they call it, as little regarded as the caterwauling of a cat in the gutter? Nevertheless, Sir Knight, I drink this cup to thee, to the success of all true lovers—I fear you are none,” he added, on observing that the knight (whose brain began to be heated with these repeated draughts) qualified his flagon from the water pitcher.
Against this one fiery glass were glued the noses of many gutter-snipes, for the chocolates were all wrapped in those red and gold and green metallic colours which are almost better than chocolate itself; and the huge white wedding-cake in the window was somehow at once remote and satisfying, just as if the whole North Pole were good to eat.
Now Harry speaks to Rover, The best dog on the plains, And to his hardy horses, And strokes their shaggy manes; 'We've breasted bigger rivers When floods were at their height Nor shall this gutter stop us From getting home to-night!' The thunder growls a warning, The ghastly lightnings gleam, As the drover turns his horses To swim the fatal stream.
Quotes with GUTTER (3)
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: Iwasabeautifulgirl Pleasedon’tgo Itoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyone Ithinkofmyselfasfunny Forgiveme….There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their destinations. Shy people carried a…
I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.
Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1971–2024).