gutter
noun
a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
gutter-like
-
a word derived from
gutter.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 Rex Ellingwood Beach
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 John Morse
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 Alexis Thomson
