Citations:gutter

English citations of gutter

Noun: part of a street for draining water, but near enough to where vehicles travel that they have to swerve

• 1998, Denis Hamill, 3 Quarters, 1999 Pocket Books edition, →ISBN, page 91 [1]:

  Bobby stood in the middle of the gutter, traffic swerving around him.

• 2010 August 31, Anne Hart, "Sacramento County Children's Report Card says 34% of teens 13-16 are overweight or obese", Sacramento Nutrition Examiner (blog) [2]:

  If you don't want your kids to play softball in the middle of the gutter full of traffic, you need parks.

Cataract (waterfall)

• 1952, some translator modernizing Richard Rolle's Psalm 41, in Life of the Spirit (1946-1964) (Cambridge University Press), vol. 6, no. 69, Bible & Liturgy (March 1952), p. 395-396:

  Deepness incalleth deepness : in voice of thy gutters [Latin: cataractarum]. I am letted (i.e., hindered) and dreary for deepness, that is the doom […]