different between rutter vs gutter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???d??/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ruter, rutter, variants of ruiter, from Middle French routier (“mercenary soldier”), corresponding to rout +? -ier.

Noun

rutter (plural rutters)

1. (historical) A horseman or cavalryman, especially a German one, associated with the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries. [from 16th c.]
   • c. 1611, John Fletcher, “The Woman's Prize”, Act I, scene iv:

     Such a regiment of rutters / Never defied men braver

Etymology 2

From Middle French routier, corresponding to route +? -ier.

Noun

rutter (plural rutters)

1. (historical) A set of instructions for navigating a course at sea; a pilot's book or seaman's guide. [from 16th c.]
   • 1975, James Clavell, Sh?gun, Random House 2009, p. 13:

     But a rutter was only as good as the pilot who write it, the scribe who hand-copied it, the very rare printer who printed it, or the scholar who translated it.

Translations

Etymology 3

From rut +? -er.

Noun

rutter (plural rutters)

1. (now chiefly Scotland) A tool used in peat cutting or for marking off ground. [from 18th c.]
2. (Canada, US, now historical) A type of plough used by lumberjacks to carve a track for a sleigh. [from 19th c.]
3. (slang) The penis.
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 321:

     She moved my rutter so that it was not poking into her. We fell asleep.

Translations

See also

• Rut

Anagrams

• turret

Swedish

Noun

rutter

1. indefinite plural of rutt

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???t.?/, /???t?.?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

1. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
2. A ditch along the side of a road.
3. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

4. (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.

5. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
6. Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
7. (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
8. (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
9. (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
10. (Britain) A drainage channel.
11. The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
12. (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.

13. (comics) The spaces between comic book panels

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: gotro

Translations

See also

• gutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• gout

Verb

gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)

1. To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
2. (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
3. (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
4. (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
5. (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

6. (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

Translations

Etymology 2

gut +? -er

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

1. One who or that which guts.
   • 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)

     A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.

   • 2013, Don Keith, Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)

     An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter.

Danish

Noun

gutter c

1. indefinite plural of gut

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

gutter m

1. indefinite plural of gutt