gutter

Noun

• a tool for gutting fish

• a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)

• misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
  • his career was in the gutter
    
  • all that work went down the sewer
    
  • pensions are in the toilet
    

• a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater

Verb

• provide with gutters
  • gutter the buildings
    

• wear or cut gutters into
  • The heavy rain guttered the soil
    

• flow in small streams
  • Tears guttered down her face
    

• burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
  • The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sewer , toilet , trough