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Superior, outstanding, a leader
When the trough of a wave is amidships, causing the hull to deflect so the ends of the keel are higher than the middle. The opposite of hogging.
Drunk
Horse and trough is London Cockney rhyming slang for cough.
Superior, outstanding, exudes leadership.
Verb. To eat. The imagery is of eating like an animal.
Trough is British slang for to eat.
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An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
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Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.
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The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
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A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
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A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
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Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc.
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A trough, or tray.
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The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
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Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
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A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed; also, one of the cleats, grooves, or steps in such a trough. Also called ripple.
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A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.
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A trough for discharging water.
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An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.
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A wooden trough, forming a drain.
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Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal.
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A trough for washing ores.
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A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.
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A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
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A trough for washing ore.
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A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
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