trough

Meaning

Noun

1. A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
2. Any similarly shaped container.
3. Any similarly shaped container.
4. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
5. (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
6. A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
7. A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
8. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
9. A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
10. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

Verb

To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

Synonyms

manger

tub

groove

bowl

gutter

tray

channel

pan

till

ditch

water trough

public treasury

chute

hollow

washtub

furrow

depression

scoop

cup

drain

duct

eaves

feeding trough

flume

gain

hod

hopper

ice

🧊

metal

🤘

nick

penstock

pipeline

pits

pool

pot

raceway

rack

rink

runway

rut

sink

skip

slideway

slot

sluice

spout

strake

sulcus

swimming pool

tank

tract

trench

trug

tubing

vat

wake

water-butt

watering-place

water pipe

wave hollow

feeding-trough

cannelure

trough of low pressure

bakie

tundish

watering trough

dolly-tub

wireway

cable trough

cable tray

wave trough

cable chute

pouring basket

pouring box

grooved wire

gain groove

through-line

polw groove

ocean trough

furnace pot

across

cable tank

bank clerk

basin

bin

bunk

butt

canal

cashier

cash register

cavetto

chase

checkout

checkout counter

coffin

⚰️

conduit

coulisse

creche

crib

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹɒf/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: trogh

Inherited from Old English: troh

Cognate with Western Frisian: trôch

Cognate with Dutch: trog

Cognate with German: Trog

Cognate with Danish: trug

Cognate with Swedish: tråg

Cognate with Middle Irish: drochta

Cognate with Classical Armenian: տարգալ

In summary

From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”).
See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.