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The unglamorous trough doing more for your house than your roof ever admits.
means A channel that carries water away — along the eaves of a roof, the edge of a road, or the inner margin where two pages of a book meet.
from From Old French 'goutiere,' a drip-channel, built on Latin 'gutta' meaning a drop — literally 'the thing that handles the drops.' The same 'gutta' drips quietly into 'gout' (once thought a disease of falling humors) and the architectural 'guttae,' the little drop-shaped studs under a temple's cornice. From a single Latin drop, a whole watershed of words.
- origin word
- From Latin gutta, meaning a drop of water
- bowling secret
- Gutter balls average 19% of casual frames
- city history
- Medieval streets dumped waste into central gutters
- hidden volume
- One inch of rain sheds 1,200 gallons off a roof
- print term
- The gutter is the blank margin between book pages
for instance
milwaukee river gutter — lowest point in milwaukee's downtown drainage system that captures runoff from the city streets