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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.”
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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 203 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...
hernesheir One just learning English might incorrectly surmise the two halves of this term should rhyme. Cf. snowplow. Dec 11, 2010