guttering

adj

1. Of a small flame, flickering and about to be extinguished.

   “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;”

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)Gutters, collectively.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of gutter