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Trough :: Trough (n.) Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc..

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..

Synclinal :: Synclinal (a.) Formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal..

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..

Tye :: Tye (n.) A trough for washing ores.

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

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..

Year :: Year (n.) 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 bissext

Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car..

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..

Canvass :: Canvass (n.) To go trough, with personal solicitation or public addresses; as, to canvass a district for votes; to canvass a city for subscriptions..

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

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

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) 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..

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

Runner :: Runner (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed..

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

Sluice :: Sluice (n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth..

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled..

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..

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