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

Example: 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.

Example: 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.

Example: The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.

To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

Example: he troughed his way through three meat pies.