Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A trough or an open box in which feed for livestock is placed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A trough or box in which is laid for horses or cattle such food as oats, bran, roots, or the like (hay being generally placed in a rack above the manger); the receptacle from which horses or cattle eat in a stable or cowhouse.
- n. Nautical, a small space at the forward end of the deck, divided off by a combing (called the manger-board), just back of the hawse-holes, to prevent the entrance of water through the latter when the after part of the deck is flooded.
Wiktionary
- n. A trough for animals to eat from.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.
- n. (Naut.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
Etymologies
- From Old French mangoire, menjoere, from mangier ("to eat") (modern French manger). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French mangeoire, from mangier, to eat, from Latin mandūcāre, from mandūcō, glutton, from mandere, to chew. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The maxim, "_Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pas vivre pour manger_," was reversed.”
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
“The jesus in the manger is a dirty old baby doll with a rubbery face and an open mouth that shouts out "FEED ME.”
“Replacing the word "manger" with "feeding trough", its equivalent, gives the account an even more heartrending effect; "manger" is poetic, while”
“Passpack: online password manger with secure sharing (WebWorkerDaily)”
“The manger is a roasting pan, with a green dinosaur inside.”
“One "star" that might have appeared first in the east and then stopped above the manger is a comet, says British researcher Colin Humphreys in a recent paper in the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society.”
“In England these days, Three Wise Men become Three Wise Women, and on occasion, Baby Jesus in the manger is a girl.”
“The names, as usual, are often misleading, as in blanc manger, which is very different from our blanc-mange; and the receipt for “goose in a hog pot” leaves one in doubt as to its adaptability to the modern palate.”
“But this time, my agent calls my manger, explains the situation, and my manager gets on the phone to the casting director, does his thing, and I have an audition three days later, because the casting director decided to trust my manager and take a chance on me.”
“The devil [107] is to him a terrible reality, the Christchild in the manger is the creator [108] of the world, and the problem of the Trinity is dismissed without consideration.”
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘manger’.
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Do-it-yourself Christmas Carol List
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Cold comfort farm again
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alopecia
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Death Row
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
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faux amis
Words which mean something different in another language.
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Christmas Pageant Chapter Two
Vocabulary for Chapter Two of the Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
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religious observances
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Tweets
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Louises Boldly enter the kitchen where the family sat at the manger. Cold Comfort Farm. Feb 21, 2013
bilby "It's along midnight. I'm not wanted for any duties, so I must find a place to kip. Eyes now accustomed to the gloom I see ahead of our trench a group of farm outbuildings. With blankets and kit I lumber across to them. Inside I find a manger. The roof is intact save a few slates that rattle when the guns go. A manger? Well, if it was good enough for him."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.' Apr 19, 2009
sionnach To eat, in France. Jan 9, 2008