gutter

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of GUTTER

a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof <one of his chores is to clean leaves and sticks out of the gutters before winter sets in>

Synonyms drainpipe, eaves trough, rainspout, spout, trough, waterspout

Related Words drain, flume, sluice; conduit, duct; aqueduct

a long narrow channel dug in the earth <rainwater running off the road into the gutters>

Synonyms dike, fosse (or foss), gutter, sheugh [chiefly Scottish], trench, trough

Related Words acequia [Southwest], culvert, drain, draw, gully (also gulley), ravine; drill, furrow; ha-ha, moat, stank [British dialect], sunk fence; kennel

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