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noun

Trough 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.

Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.

(Meteor.) The transverse section of a cyclonic area where the barometric pressure, neither rising nor falling, has reached its lowest point.

Trough gutter (Arch.), a rectangular or V-shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house.

Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves.

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"Trough" Quotes from Famous Books

... sprung up and felt herself shaking from head to foot. For the moment he was not looking in, but stood at the top of the ladder with his head thrown back, craning for a view of the water-trough under the eaves. ...

— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... rise. The bus moved forward. That wretched woman, making as if to pursue her aroused be-fuddlement, turned about to follow and came a few steps, lurching like a ship that foundered. The light blazed down upon her upturned face. She lurched into some shadow and, as wreckage swallowed up in the trough of the sea, her ...

— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson

... impassiveness of one who finds his way over a puddle in the road; and here were puddles too—puddles of blood. A gunner lifted away the corpse of his nearest friend from the trail and strained and wrenched at his gun with the intense concentration of one who kneads dough in a trough. The sobbing agony of those whom Stafford had led rose up from the ground around him, and voices cried to be put out of pain and torture. These begrimed men around him, with jackets torn by bullets, with bandaged head stained with blood or dragging leg which left a ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... advantage of their experience, and would not go in first. Finding, at length, how matters stood, they gave a shout, and taking advantage of a great comber which came swelling in, rearing its head, and lifting up the sterns of our boats nearly perpendicular, and again dropping them in the trough, they gave three or four long and strong pulls, and went in on top of the great wave, throwing their oars overboard, and as far from the boat as they could throw them, and, jumping out the instant the boat touched the beach, they seized hold of her by the gunwale, on each side, and ran her up ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... in the stable, I've watered him at the trough, I've curried him down to a glossy brown, And taken his harness off. Now we are resting a little, Because there has got to be A long, stiff run before we're done, For the birthday ...

— A Jolly Jingle-Book • Various

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