guttering
English
Adjective
guttering
- (of a small flame) flickering and about to be extinguished
- 1919, Siegfried Sassoon, The Dug-out:
- Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
And one arm bent across your sullen cold
Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
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