Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dough-raiser . - noun 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.
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Examples
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In the midst of all this they met a wonderful vessel — it was a dough-trough, in which there sat an old woman.
The Pink Fairy Book 2003
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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.
The Pink Fairy Book 2003
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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.
The Pink Fairy Book 2003
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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.
The Pink Fairy Book 2003
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We have a glimpse of him kneading at the dough-trough with
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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[Illustration: Almost smothered in the dough-trough 214]
A Romance Of Tompkins Square 1891 W. T. [Illustrator] Smedley 1881
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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.
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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 John Thackray Bunce 1863
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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.
Ancient Egypt George Rawlinson 1857
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She was leaning over the dough-trough, plunging her fists furiously into the spongy mass, when she heard a step on the porch.
The Story of Kennett Bayard Taylor 1851
hernesheir commented on the word dough-trough
One just learning English might incorrectly surmise the two halves of this term should rhyme. Cf. snowplow.
December 11, 2010