Meaning & use
rhones
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Gutters or drainpipes that carry rainwater off a roof, a term used mainly in Scottish and northern English dialect.
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The old cottage's rhones were choked with leaves after the autumn storm.
He climbed a ladder to clear the rhones before the winter rains began.
A note on using this word
A regional British dialect word, chiefly Scottish, for what is more widely known in standard English as a gutter.
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guttersdownspouts
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