gutter vs leg

gutter

noun
  • A space between printed columns of text. 

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

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

  • A groove down the sides of a bowling lane. 

  • A ditch along the side of a road. 

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

  • An unprinted space between rows of stamps. 

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

  • One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form. 

  • A drainage channel. 

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

  • A low, vulgar state. 

  • The spaces between comic book panels. 

  • One who or that which guts. 

verb
  • To flow or stream; to form gutters. 

  • To flicker as if about to be extinguished. 

  • To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. 

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

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

  • To supply with a gutter or gutters. 

leg

noun
  • A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out. 

  • A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg. 

  • One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race. 

  • One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely. 

  • Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system. 

  • In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets. 

  • In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. 

  • A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line. 

  • A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest. 

  • An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper. 

  • The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. 

  • A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other. 

  • An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy. 

  • An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg. 

  • The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time. 

  • A stage of a journey, race etc. 

  • A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath. 

  • Something that supports. 

  • One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse. 

  • A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land. 

verb
  • To remove the legs from an animal carcass. 

  • To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse'). 

  • To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. 

  • To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. 

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