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 reasons ...
, 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 physically assembling a book of codex format from an ordered stack of ''signatures'', sheets of paper folded together into sections that are bound, along one edge, with a thick needle and strong thread. Cheaper, b ...
, 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 pri ...
, the space between panes of postage stamps that creates configurations of "gutter pairs" or "gutter blocks"
Other uses
* Gutters, in
bowling
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), though ...
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 pucks (also called ''weights'' or ''quoits'') down a long ...
, 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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