Gutter may refer to:
Water discharge structures
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Rain gutter
A rain gutter, eavestrough, eaves-shoot or surface water collection channel is a component of a water discharge system for a building. It is necessary to prevent water dripping or flowing off roofs in an uncontrolled manner for several reason ...
, used on roofs and in buildings
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Street gutter
A street gutter is a depression that runs parallel to a road and is designed to collect rainwater that flows along the street diverting it into a storm drain. A gutter alleviates water buildup on a street, allows pedestrians to pass without walki ...
, for drainage of streets
Film
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''The Gutter'' (1938 film), a French film
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''The Gutter'' (2024 film), an American film
Design and printing
* Gutter, in typography, the space between
columns
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member ...
of printed text
* Gutter, in
bookbinding
Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes. Firstly, one binds the sheets of papers alon ...
, page edges joined to the spine
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Gutter (philately)
In philately, a gutter is the space left between postage stamps which allows them to be separated or perforated.Bennett, Russell and Watson, James; ''Philatelic Terms Illustrated'', Stanley Gibbons Publications, London (1978). When stamps are pr ...
, the space between panes of postage stamps that creates configurations of "gutter pairs" or "gutter blocks"
Other uses
* Gutters, in
bowling
Bowling is a Throwing sports#Target sports, target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a bowling ball, ball toward Bowling pin, pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). Most references to ''bowling'' are ...
and
table shuffleboard
Table shuffleboard (also known as American shuffleboard, indoor shuffleboard, slingers, shufflepuck, and quoits, sandy table) is a game in which players push metal-and-plastic weighted Puck (sports), pucks (also called ''weights'' or ''quoits' ...
, the trough hazards on either side of the playing lane into which the bowling ball or shuffleboard puck may fall
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"Gutter" (song), a song by Medina
See also
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Guter (disambiguation)
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