Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trough in which water is provided for domestic animals.
- noun In railroading, a portion of a railroad track fitted with a very long, shallow iron trough placed on the ties between the rails.
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Examples
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He held them now, Bob and Mab, and in the shadow of the watering-trough Wolf lay and looked on.
Chapter XXIV 2010
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He stood balanced on a watering-trough outside the church.
Angel Fish lili 2009
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He stood balanced on a watering-trough outside the church.
Archive 2009-09-01 lili 2009
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Instead of the single long watering-trough which usually distinguishes the front of the English public-house of the second class, there were three conveniences of that kind, for the use, as the landlord used to say, of the troop-horses when the soldiers came to search his house; while a knowing leer and a nod let you understand what species of troops he was thinking of.
Redgauntlet 2008
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This was the old stage watering-trough, made by Dad himself when the big cabin was built.
Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley
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The baker-man tumbled into the watering-trough, and all the rest rushed higgledy-piggledy into the houses and stores.
Seven O'Clock Stories Robert Gordon Anderson
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There in the yard, tied to the old watering-trough, stood a plump, pretty Jersey cow!
At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown
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After she had laid her egg, she would wander back in a careless way, quite as though she had only been to the watering-trough for a drink.
Among the Farmyard People Clara Dillingham Pierson
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It is all very well in its way, this blending of antiquity and modernity, and gives one something of the thrill of romance, which most of us have in our make-up to a greater or lesser extent; but, on the other hand, romance gets some hard knocks when one finds a Roman sarcophagus used as a watering-trough; or a chapel as an automobile garage, as he often will in the Midi.
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Mr. Allen went to the watering-trough and, filling his cup, called out:
Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley
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