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Trough

/tɹɑf/

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

📖 Definitions of "Trough"

noun
  1. 1

    A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

    "One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening."

  2. 2

    Any similarly shaped container.

  3. 3

    A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.

    "There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae."

  4. 4

    A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.

    "The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing."

verb
  1. 1

    To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

    "he troughed his way through three meat pies."

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