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water trough

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A water trough is the open container animals drink from. Fill the water trough, a frozen water trough, the water trough in the field.

Checking one is a daily job in winter, since a frozen water trough will kill stock faster than a shortage of feed. A cow drinks in enormous gulps and empties one far faster than the pipe refills it.

Definitions of water trough

  1. 1nounwater troughThe open container animals drink from.B2

    “The horses crowded round the water trough after their long ride.”

water trough is a container.

Where it comes from

Middle English water trouȝ is water plus trough, from Old English trog, a hollowed vessel.

  1. Middle English

    water trouȝ

  2. English, today

    water trough

From Middle English water trouȝ, equivalent to water + trough. Cognate with West Frisian wettertroch (“water trough”), Dutch watertrog (“water trough”), German Wassertrog (“water trough”), Danish vandtrug (“water trough”), Swedish vattentrog (“water trough”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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