English Explanatory Dictionary

water trough

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a long trough placed between the rails in a railway track, which enabled a steam locomotive to replenish its water supply without stopping by lowering a scoop. They were removed at the end of steam train operation.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, trough: a watering trough for livestock.

Word forms

water trough water troughs water-trough watertrough

Etymology

From Middle English water trouȝ, equivalent to water + trough. Cognate with West Frisian wettertroch (“water trough”), Dutch watertrog (“water trough”), German Wassertrog (“water trough”), Danish vandtrug (“water trough”), Swedish vattentrog (“water trough”).

Synonyms

track pan
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