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trough
/tɹɔθ/
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What does trough mean?
noun
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
More meanings (9)
noun
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
- A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- Alternative letter-case form of trough.
verb
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
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IPA pronunciation
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This slot, or trough, is about a mile and a half long and about sixty yards wide at the narrowest place.
Sometimes they are the story of one pig crowding the other pigs out of the trough and cornering all the swill!
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Beneath the surface rubbish was discovered the remains of a cedar trough, by which the water from the mines was conducted away.
Let us preserve the gravity of serious things and not treat my learned trough as though it were a drawing room futility.
Like the low murmur of distant music came the beating wings of hundreds of her bees, rimming the water trough, insane with thirst.