Meanings of open gutter in English

I went to a big open gutter in one village.

A scuffed shoe kicked the book into a heap of rubbish near an open gutter.

One Sunday she was walking by an open gutter in a town in North Wales when she found a copper.

An open gutter that was full of rats led under the house to the likewise open gutter of the street.

The dray caught its right wheel in the grating of an open gutter and remained stock-still, leaning aslant, as though planted there.

Instead, there were narrow, dirty lanes and open gutters.

In Mombasa's Kisauni and Majengo districts, youths idle in the rubbish-strewn streets lined by dilapidated housing and open gutters.

Along the walks were open gutters, deep ditches of cypress full of standing water, fragrant with filth and raw sewage.

Public sanitation remains heinous as open gutters stream with sewage, creating breeding grounds for flies, malaria-bearing mosquitoes, and all manner of disease.