Manger
['meɪn(d)ʒə] or ['mendʒɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed.
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Definition
(n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.
(n.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.
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Definition
n. a trough in which food is laid for horses and cattle.—Dog in the manger one who will neither enjoy something himself nor let others do so—also adjectively.
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Examples
- You'd better be a dog in the manger. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Was he with Madame in the _salle-à-manger? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Ill fo manger. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Not being a dog in the manger, but the happiest fellow alive, I assure you I can dance at Jo's wedding with a heart as light as my heels. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And the discovery that she was the owner of a disposition so purely that of the dog in the manger had something in it which at first made her ashamed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The horse made me a sign to go in first; it was a large room with a smooth clay floor, and a rack and manger, extending the whole length on one side. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The company assembled in the long salle a manger, that evening, was such as one sees nowhere but on the Continent. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They passed the door and went on to the salle-à-manger. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Ill fo manger, you know, says Mr. Jobling, pronouncing that word as if he meant a necessary fixture in an English stable. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Such doings may be lined with religion, but outside they have a nasty, dog-in-the-manger look. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This was the manger where Christ was born. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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