Meaning & use
Rones
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Roof gutters or drainpipes used to channel rainwater from a building, chiefly in Scottish usage.
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Water overflowed from the blocked rones after the storm.
The builder was hired to clear leaves out of the rones before winter.
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"Rone" is a Scots word still common in Scotland and northern England for what is elsewhere called a gutter or downspout.
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