water trough

Significado (Inglés)

1. a long trough placed between the rails in a railway track, which enabled a steam locomotive to replenish its water supply without stopping by lowering a scoop. They were removed at the end of steam train operation.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, trough: a watering trough for livestock.

Conceptos

pila

abrevadero

Sinónimos

rainspout

downspout

gutter

waterspout

cistern

spout

trough

sink

boat transporting drinking water

Traducciones

abreuvoir

abbeveratoio

auge

Wassertrog

trogolo

waterbak

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: water trouȝ

Cognado con frisón occidental: wettertroch

Cognado con neerlandés: watertrog

Cognado con alemán: Wassertrog

Cognado con danés: vandtrug

Cognado con sueco: vattentrog

In summary

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”).