Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as dough-raiser.
- n. A long box made of wood or iron, about 2 feet wide, 1½ deep, and from 8 to 12 long, in which dough is mixed by hand and left to prove or rise. It is also used to receive dough from the doughing-machine.
Examples
“The prince made haste to get the silk thread tied round her little white finger; at the same moment the princess became a dove again and flew away, and immediately after that the old witch came home with her dough-trough on he back.”
“Then she rowed away in her dough-trough, while the storm howled still louder than before, and the water dashed over their boat until it was almost sinking.”
“When he had done this there was a great lake behind them, and this the witch could not cross until she ran home again and brought her dough-trough.”
“In the midst of all this they met a wonderful vessel — it was a dough-trough, in which there sat an old woman.”
“We have a glimpse of him kneading at the dough-trough with”
“[Illustration: Almost smothered in the dough-trough 214]”
“Mix the dough in a tray with the hand, then put it in the dough-trough at A, turn the crank C with the right hand, and push the dough toward the grooved cylinder with the other.”
“The man is like an old man with a low-crowned hat upon his head; the woman is very beautiful in front, but behind she is hollow, like a dough-trough, and she has a sort of harp on which she plays, and lures young men with it, and then kills them.”
Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland
“From the monuments we see how the men sang at their labours -- here as they trod the wine-press or the dough-trough, there as they threshed out the corn by driving the oxen through the golden heaps.”
“She was leaning over the dough-trough, plunging her fists furiously into the spongy mass, when she heard a step on the porch.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dough-trough’.
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Containers
Stuff that holds other stuff.
cardboard box, jar, filing cabinet, safe deposit box, cupboard, wardrobe, jewel case, briefcase, locker, canopic jar, chest of drawers, paper sack and 208 more...
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Snowplows and Dough-troughs
A list of words whose "halves" look like they should rhyme, but don't, beginning with snowplow and dough-trough.
I'm going to need help finding terms to add to this list - any assistan...snowplow, dough-trough, tinging, cootfoot, bloodwood, know-how, lowbrow, downthrown, fierier, homecome, overcover, knowhow and 6 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir One just learning English might incorrectly surmise the two halves of this term should rhyme. Cf. snowplow. Dec 11, 2010