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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 curb and diverts rain and street-cleaning water away from the street and into a storm drain

Sports

  • Gutters, in bowling and table shuffleboard, the trough hazards on either side of the playing lane into which the bowling ball or shuffleboard puck may fall

Design and printing

  • Gutter, in typography, the space between columns of printed text, including the gap between facing pages
  • Gutter (philately), the space between panes of postage stamps that creates configurations of "gutter pairs" or "gutter blocks"

Music

  • The dictionary definition of gutter at Wiktionary
  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gutter" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  • Media related to Gutters at Wikimedia Commons