Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The process of forming into gutters or channels.
- n. A channel or collection of channels to receive and carry off water.
- n. Material of wood or metal for gutters or rain-troughs.
Wiktionary
- n. Gutters considered as a group.
- v. present participle of gutter.
- adj. of a small flame flickering and about to be extinguished
Examples
“We drank rainwater funnelled by guttering from the house roof into a galvanised iron tank.”
“A common problem with scanning an opened book is "guttering", which happens when the spine of the book is not pressed flat enough, and the inside of each page, where it meets the spine, is curved against the glass.”
“If you find this kind of "guttering" regularly in your own scans, where the characters near the spine are not being recognized correctly by your OCR, you need to make sure that your book is down as flat as possible before making a scan.”
“This volume has very little in the way of guttering which is great.”
“ACTPLA general counsel Tony Thew said even though residents in dual occupancies were subject to the same laws as people in multi-unit dwellings, many were unaware they had to set money aside for maintenance, such as guttering repairs.”
“Amy Watson, manager at a women's clothing store, said she'd been outside just prior to the tornado, which sent a tall spiraling cloud cutting across part of the city, and saw the guttering rip off as the twister struck around at around 3pm local time.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fatalities as Tornado Hits New Zealand's Auckland
“For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy.”
The Guardian: Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
“There was only the dark and the path, glittering pinkly but dimming like a guttering candle flame.”
“But at this late date - at this very late hour - that hope flickers like a small, guttering flame.”
“Or was that the flicker of their guttering candle?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘guttering’.
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Dean Koontz Life Expectancy
Words I'm learning or investigating that I found by reading Life Expectancy (not all words are in the book).
chutzpah, luminous, torchieres, dunderheaded, inane, lummox, fox-trot, rumba, cha-cha, tango, swing, flub and 37 more...
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Annsley's list
churlish, bibulous, salt, salty, conjugal, fabulist, maw, primordial, chimera, emetic, surly, excrescence and 228 more...
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hagendas 2011
putsch, horrent, minify, rodomontade, malapropism, bowdlerize, voluptuary, teleology, vesicle, moneth, euphonius, concupiscence and 40 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for guttering.
johnmperry 1) half-round (usually) drainage channel that runs round the edge of a roof etc.
2) action of a candle, like flickering Jun 20, 2008