eavestrough

Noun

eavestrough (countable and uncountable, plural eavestroughs)

1. (US, Western, dated outside of Canada, Upper Midwestern US) A trough under the eaves of a building for draining water from the roof; gutter.
   • Another contrivance worth mentioning, is, the manner of conducting the water down from an Eaves-trough or Lander, which is very common about Mansfield, on the edge of Nottinghamshire; it consists, in suspending a slight wooden rod from the end of the Lander, hanging down into the Water-Butt or...1813, John Farey, chapter 3, in General View of the Agriculture of Derbyshire, volume 2, London: Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 15
   • At 1 P. M. going into a back room I noticed that the water was falling from the eave trough of a kitchen, in which there had been no fire for some days.1817 March 15, Horatio Gates Spafford, “Record of Cold”, in Niles’ Weekly Register, volume 12, number 3, page 35

   Synonyms:

   eavestroughing, eaves-troughing, gutter, rain gutter