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Trough

//tɹɔf//

Definitions

nountroughs · Troughs

1
A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
2
Any similarly shaped container.
Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
3
Alternative letter-case form of trough.

verbtroughs · troughing · troughed

1
To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
He troughed his way through three meat pies.

Word Origin

PIE word *dóru From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *...

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