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Rain runoff site
Answer for the clue "Rain runoff site ", 6 letters:
gutter
Alternative clues for the word gutter
Word definitions for gutter in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gutter may refer to: Rain gutter , a narrow trough or duct which collects rainwater from the roof of a building and diverts it away from the structure, typically into a drain Street gutter , a depression which runs alongside a city street, usually at the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the gutter press British English (= newspapers that print shocking stories about people’s private lives ) ▪ The gutter press enjoyed printing the sensational story. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN press ▪ Finally, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gutter \Gut*ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guttered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Guttering .] To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel. --Shak. To supply with a gutter or gutters. [R.] --Dryden.
Usage examples of gutter.
This was the final consequence and the shattering cost of the aberration which came over the Nazi dictator in his youthful gutter days in Vienna and which he imparted to - or shared with - so many of his German followers.
On very stormy days the entire apse seemed to awake and to grumble under the noise of the rain as it beat against the leaden tiles of the roof, running off by the gutters of the cornices and rolling from story to story with the clamour of an overflowing torrent.
The monk came to my aid, and by dint of driving the bar between the gutter and the lead I succeeded in loosening it, and then, heaving at it with our shoulders, we beat it up till the opening was wide enough.
He put the rope as best he could upon his thighs, but wishing to take off his hat, which was in his way, he took hold of it awkwardly, and it was soon dancing from plate to plate to join the packet of linen in the gutter.
She was trying to keep her weary brain out of the gutter, trying not to like everything about him so damned much.
And this, then, was the end of the egotistical debauchee, ever going from bad to worse, and finally swept into the gutter.
The Dobe hesitated at the fence for an instant, but when Train had the top strand of barbed wire held down, he snapped his fingers and Gutter cleared the fence in a single smooth bound.
Train was pretty sure he could handle Jack if he was in I that trailer, and while he would have preferred to keep Gutter with him, he wanted the Dobe between him and those two thugs down below.
He quickened his pace, hopped over the gutter, and waded down the dragging muck in the middle of Rue Douane, keeping clear of the rough shacks and stucco cottages on either side.
There were no pikes in evidence, but each man wore a sword and long dagger ensheathed upon his belt, and their features looked hard in the light of guttering tapers mounted at odd intervals upon the stone walls.
His fragile expectations would inevitably dampen as she attacked her salad, flickered as she swallowed garlic escarole with vulgar relish, guttered with the entree, and died over brandy and cheese.
It was a gutter, originally for shit and now for rainwater, a six-inch channel between the paving slabs that sluiced through grilles into the undercity at the furthest end.
Only on the ledge in front of the guichet there was a guttering tallow candle at the disposal of the inquirers.
When we were half-way up the monk asked me to stop, as one of his packets had slipped off, and he hoped it had not gone further than the gutter.
Only a high-bodied old jalopy standing crosswise in the gutter rose between the massacre-fleet and what was left of the precinct men--but in that jalopy was the Skull Killer.