Eave vs. Gutter — What's the Difference?

(architectural element) eaves

A shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.

The blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in a sheet.

(of a candle or flame) flicker and burn unsteadily.

Make channels or furrows in (something)

A channel at the edge of a street or road for carrying off surface water.

A trough fixed under or along the eaves for draining rainwater from a roof. Also called regionally eaves trough, rainspout, spouting.

A furrow or groove formed by running water.

A trough or channel for carrying something off, such as that on either side of a bowling alley or that almost level with the water in some swimming pools.

(Printing) The white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages, as of a book.

A degraded and squalid class or state of human existence.

To form gutters or furrows in

To provide with gutters.

To flow in channels or rivulets

To melt away through the side of the hollow formed by a burning wick. Used of a candle.

To burn low and unsteadily; flicker

Vulgar, sordid, or unprincipled

A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.

A ditch along the side of a road.

A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

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

A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.

Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

(typography) A space between printed columns of text.

(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.

(philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.

(British) A drainage channel.

The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.

(figuratively) A low, vulgar state.

(comics) The spaces between comic book panels.

One who or that which guts.

To flow or stream; to form gutters.

(of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.

(of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.

(transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.

(transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

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

A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.

Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.

Either of two sunken channels at either side of the bowling alley, leading directly to the sunken pit behind the pins. Balls not thrown accurately at the pins will drop into such a channel bypassing the pins, and resulting in a score of zero for that bowl.

To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

To supply with a gutter or gutters.

To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.

A channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater

Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;

A worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)

A tool for gutting fish

Burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker;

Flow in small streams;

Wear or cut gutters into;

Provide with gutters;