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Synonyms for trough

Grammar : Noun
Spell : trawf, trof or, sometimes, trawth, troth
Phonetic Transcription : trɔf, trɒf or, sometimes, trɔθ, trɒθ

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Définition of trough

Origin :
  • Old English trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugoz (cf. Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old Norse trog, Middle Dutch troch, Dutch trog, Old High German troc, German trog), perhaps ultimately from PIE *drukos, from root *dru- "wood, tree" (see tree). Originally pronounced in English with a hard -gh- (as in Scottish loch); pronunciation shifted to -f-, but spelling remained.
  • noun gutter, depression
Example sentences :
  • She see us a-wallowin' in the trough and our mast thrashin' for all it was worth.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • At the next instant, the brig rose on a sea, settled in the trough, and struck.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Once he got up and walked over to the trough for a drink of water.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • She did not know how to sit at table, and would only eat out of a trough.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete » by Madame La Marquise De Montespan
  • Harold tumbled out of the trough in the excess of his emotion.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Age » by Kenneth Grahame
  • You'll be coming up to the trough with me—the ould home, you know.
  • Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
  • There is the trough, against that fence, the other side of the barn.
  • Extract from : « Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad » by Various
  • At that moment she was lost to view in the trough of the sea.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 » by Various
  • Schofield fell to with a will and helped move the trough into place.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor of Doubt » by Frank Williams
  • Both of them ate as fast as they possibly could, and met in the middle of the trough.
  • Extract from : « Told by the Northmen: » by E. M. [Ethel Mary] Wilmot-Buxton
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