What is the gutter on the roof called?
The gutter on the roof is called by many names, depending on what country you’re in. Other names for a roof gutter include the following: rain gutter, eaves gutter, an eavestrough (particularly in Canada), rhone (Scotland), eaves-shoot (Ireland), eaves channel, dripster, guttering, rainspouting, or simply a gutter. In Ireland, an eaves gutter is also called an eaves-shoot. The Latin term gutta, which is translated as “a droplet,” is where we get the English word gutter.