trough

Meaning of trough

noun
  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. Any similarly shaped container.
  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. A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
    The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
  5. 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.
    The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
  7. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
verb
  1. To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
    he troughed his way through three meat pies.

Information about trough

  • The plural form of trough is: troughs.
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Hyphenation of trough

trough

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • trough is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

trough synonyms

Meaning gutter:

gutter

Meaning bowl:

bowl

Meaning public treasury:

till

Meaning manger:

manger

Translation of trough

Anagrams of trough

rought

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