Eavestrough vs Gutter - What's the difference?
eavestrough | gutter |
A trough under the eaves of a building for draining water from the roof; gutter.
* 1813 , John Farey, General View of the Agriculture of Derbyshire , v 2, ch 3, London: Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, p 15:
* 1817 , Horatio Gates Spafford, “Record of Cold” in Niles’ Weekly Register , v 12, n 3 (March 15), p 35:
* 1836 , John Henry Hopkins, Essay on Gothic Architecture, with Various Plans and Drawings for Churches , Burlington: Smith & Harrington, p 42:
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or the Whale , v 3, p 211:
* 1870 , William Wait, A Digest of New York Reports , v 2, Albany: William Gould & Son, p 1407:
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A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
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A ditch along the side of a road.
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A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
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.
(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
(British) A drainage channel.
The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
(figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
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.
One who or that which guts.
* 1921 , Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)
* 2013 , Don Keith, ?Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)
Gutter is a synonym of eavestrough.
As nouns the difference between eavestrough and gutter
is that eavestrough is a trough under the eaves of a building for draining water from the roof; gutter while gutter is a prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.As a verb gutter is
to flow or stream; to form gutters.eavestrough
English
Alternative forms
* eave trough * eave-trough * eaves trough * eaves-troughNoun
- Another contrivance worth mentioning, is, the manner of conducting the water down from an Eaves-trough or Lander, which is very common about Mansfield, on the edge of Nottinghamshire; it consists, in suspending a slight wooden rod from the end of the Lander, hanging down into the Water-Butt or Cistern, down which the water runs, without being scattered by the wind, or blown against the wall, as too constantly happens, unless expensive upright spouts or trunks are used, to convey the water down, and which are very subject to decay.
- At 1 P. M. going into a back room I noticed that the water was falling from the eave trough of a kitchen, in which there had been no fire for some days.
- e , the eave-trough , hollowed, as usual, out of solid timber, and having the outer edge an inch lower than the inner.
- They laugh at long-togs so, Flask; but seems to me, a Long tailed coat ought always to be worn in all storms afloat. The tails tapering down that way, serve to carry off the water, d'ye see. Same with cocked hats; the cocks form gable-end eave-troughs , Flask.
- Where in an action for a nuisance, in allowing the water from the defendant's roof to be shed on the plaintiff's land, there was evidence to show that the water did not run upon the plaintiff's premises until after a new eavestrough was constructed and put up, and that since that time it did run over and upon the plaintiff's premises, and injured his land; it was held , that the judge on the tiral erred in nonsuiting the plaintiff.
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Synonyms
* eavestroughing * eaves-troughing * (especially US and British) gutter * rain guttergutter
English
(Street gutter)Etymology 1
(etyl) gotere, from (etyl) goutiere (FrenchNoun
(en noun)- The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.
- Get your mind out of the gutter .
- What kind of gutter language is that? I ought to wash your mouth out with soap.
Derived terms
* gutter ball, gutterball * gutter member * guttermouth * gutter plane * guttersnipe * gutter stickSee also
(pedia) * goutVerb
(en verb)- (Dryden)
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Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.
- An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter .