Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Wiktionary
(context of a small flame English) flickering and about to be extinguished n. gutter considered as a group. v
(present participle of gutter English)
Usage examples of "guttering".
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.
Only on the ledge in front of the guichet there was a guttering tallow candle at the disposal of the inquirers.
Behind the vessel, across the sea, penduline clouds blackened the long, infernal forge-fires of the guttering Winter sun.
When they were done, they lay with her hair smothering his face, Smetana still playing, the clock ticking, the phoney fire guttering.
Somewhere, a great recording ledger lay open atop a rat-gnawed ambo beside a guttering tallow candle.
Daylight found the vicar and his wife, a quaintly-costumed little couple, still marvelling about on their own ground floor by the unnecessary light of a guttering candle.
By the time he ran out of ridge Merel was already lowering herself on to the stable roof, supporting herself by clinging to the creaking guttering.
And that night whilst the Crew lay deep in snoring and the Elver Guards camped disdainfully apart with heads upon saddles, he and the pothecary spoke long and low together beside a guttering fire, and the coldly indifferent stars pulsed overhead.
Zack entered the room, and saw his strange friend, with legs crossed and hands in pockets, sitting gravely in the usual corner, on the floor, between a brandy-bottle on one side, and a guttering, unsnuffed candle on the other, he roared with laughter, and stamped about in his usual boisterous way, till the flimsy little house seemed to be trembling under him to its very foundations.
Zack entered the room, and saw his strange friend, with legs crossed and hands in pockets, sitting gravely in the usual corner, on the floor, between a brandy-bottle on one side, and a guttering, unsnuffed candle on the other, he roared with laughter, and stamped about in his usual boisterous way, till the flimsy little house seemed to be trembling under him to its very foundations.
Some of the blokes would then go training or go home and make an attempt at fixing their leaky guttering.
The streets were now settling into winter, there were drippings from gutterings, leaves spread themselves like wallpaper on the pavements and street lamps were fuzzy with mist.
The torches were guttering out, the howling voices blown to cindery shreds on the wind.
Playing on and on for the joy of the music, when the last theater-goer has gone home, when the yawning ushers are snuffing the candles and the guttering footlights, when the actors and actresses have washed away their makeup and changed back into the clothing they ordinarily wear, the plain brown skirts and trousers, drab blouses and tunics and coats worn to the theater, worn to work as so many other drab brown garments, as plain as the bulbuls' brown feathers, were worn to work?
It in its turn communed with the guttering ranks of ancestors below it.