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Definition trough

Etymology

From Middle English trough, trowgh, trow, trou?, trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-Germanic *trug?, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian ?????? (targal, “ladle, spoon”), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”)). More at tree.

Noun

trough (plural troughs)

1. A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
2. Any similarly shaped container.
   1. (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
3. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
4. (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
5. (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) 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.
6. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
7. (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

Verb

trough (third-person singular simple present troughs, present participle troughing, simple past and past participle troughed)

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

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