gutter
noun
a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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And what am I To life,—a ship whose star has guttered out?
From Renascence and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay