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/ˈɡʌt.ə/ · noun
A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water..
They a not so clean as they might be, since the water [is] carried off by only one gutter, in the centre of t[he] street
In nearly all of the towns the gutters are filled with vegetation, or have been neglected for so long a time that the roadway becomes its own drainage bed.
‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
As Mike parked the vehicle, its right wheels sank into an unpaved gutter gradually worn irregular and deep by the rush of rainwater flowing down the street.
Gutters separated the sidewalk from the road on both sides and flowed with muddy water.
Meltwater gathered in the icy ruts of the unpaved road, the pressure wearing thin channels in the packed snow. Along the gutter the rivulets of spring runoff cut a course to the storm sewer
The gutters must be cleared of leaves a few times a year.
You can decide to use the bumpers to avoid the ball going down the gutter every time.
Use gutter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gutter means A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water..
Common synonyms include cloam, trough.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They a not so clean as they might be, since the water [is] carried off by only one gutter, in the centre of t[he] street
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