Trough
[trɒf] or [trɔf]
Definition
(noun.) a long narrow shallow receptacle.
(noun.) a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed).
Editor: Val--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.
(n.) Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.
Edited by Della
Definition
n. a long hollow vessel for water or other liquid: a long tray: a long narrow channel: a concavity or hollow.
Typed by Anatole
Examples
- Then placing the boat at one end of the trough, the weight would draw it through the water to the other. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When all the water has been forced out, slip the glass plate under the mouth of the bottle and remove the bottle from the trough. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Biot on the action of fluids on light, he placed the fluids in a trough formed by two plates of glass cemented together at an angle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Estimating the quantity of water which flows through the trough each second. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Fill the trough with water until the shelf is just covered and allow the end of the delivery tube to rest just beneath the hole in the shelf. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- At the door of a cottage I saw a little girl about to throw a mess of cold porridge into a pig trough. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The trough battery was used by Sir Humphry Davy in his series of great experiments--1806-1808--in which he isolated the metallic bases, calcium, sodium, potassium, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The workmen all stand on high benches, up from the floor, and under the hogs we find troughs to keep any scraps from getting under the workmen’s feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These troughs reach over to the center of the top of the joists, and are soldered together, so that no water will drip on the floor below. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In using the method for saw blades, they are first heated in a suitable furnace and then placed vertically, teeth upward, in troughs filled with the mixture. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The windmill pumps water into the troughs where cattle drink. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Typist: Maxine