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Strale :: Strake (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder..

Conveyor :: Conveyor (n.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope..

Dale :: Dale (n.) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump..

Back :: Back (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc..

Sluiceway :: Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery..

Dish :: Dish (n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured..

Strip :: Strip (n.) A trough for washing ore.

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

Trug :: Trug (n.) A trough, or tray..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.

Launder :: Launder (n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore..

Slip :: Slip (n.) Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.

Tray :: Tray (n.) 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..

Trough-shell :: Trough-shell (n.) Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra.

Manger :: Manger (n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

Riffle :: Riffle (n.) 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..

Trough :: Trough (n.) 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..

Gutter :: Gutter (n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) 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..

Scaphism :: Scaphism (n.) 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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