n. A narrow channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, at the sides of a road or a street, or elsewhere, for carrying off water or other fluid; a conduit; a trough.n. A furrow; especially, a furrow made by the action of water.n. A passageway; a secret passage.n. plural Mud; mire; dirt.n. In Australian gold-mining, the lower auriferous part of the channel of an old river of the Tertiary age, now often deeply covered by volcanic materials and detrital deposits.n. In printing, one of a number of pieces of wood or metal, channeled in the center with a groove or gutter, used to separate the pages of type in a form. Also gutter-stick.n. In entomology, any groove or elongate depression, especially when it serves as a receptacle for a part or an organ; specifically, a fold or deflexed and incurved space on the posterior wing of a lepidopterous insect, adjoining the inner edge, and embracing the abdomen from above downward when the wings are at rest.n. In cabinet-work, etc., a slight depression.To furrow, groove, or channel, as by the flow of a liquid.To conduct off, as by a trough or gutter.To provide with gutters: as, to gutter a house.To become channeled by the flow of melted tallow or wax, as a burning candle.To let fall drops, as of melted tallow from a candle.n. One who guts fish in dressing them.To devour greedily.n. In turpentine-making, one of two thin bent strips of metal which are inserted in gashes cut into the face of a tree and serve to couduct resin into a cup.