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Originally Posted by fernando
Sorry to come up with a recurrent source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_(weapon)
This because in my home language we mainly (only) use the term 'goteira' (from the Latin gutta =drop ) as for blood dripping, although we (some) are aware this is a fantasy.
It would however be interesting to know how such connotation was born ... semantic wise.
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But Fernando your word goteira and the English word gutter have the same Latin root ie 'gutta' ... and of course a fuller has the same appearance as a gutter but not necessarily the same function