trough

/tɹɑf/

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.

Any similarly shaped container.

A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.

There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.

A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.

The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.

A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.

A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.

The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.

A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

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