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When the limb is œdematous, the outline of the veins is obscured, but they can be identified on palpation as gutter-like tracks.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

Sometimes I took a peep along the little gutter-like cuts where the men rested their rifles when shooting over the edge of the trench.

From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by Morse, John

An hour later they dropped from the plain, down through a gutter-like gully to the river, where they found a trail, glass-hard beneath its downy covering.

From The Silver Horde by Beach, Rex Ellingwood