“trough”的英英意思

单词 trough
释义 I. trough, n.|trɒf, -ɔː-|
Forms: 1–2 troᵹ, (troh), 4 trowȝ, trouȝ, 4–6 trowe, 4–7 (8–9 dial.) trow, 5–6 trogh, troghe, Sc. trouch (also 9 Sc. dial.), 5–7 troughe, trowgh, trowghe, (5 troȝ, troue, trowh, trowegh, 6 trouthe, troh, trogh, troght, Sc. troch (also 9 Sc. dial.), trowch, -t, truch, troich, troucht, troycht, troyt, 7 traught), 5– trough; β. 6 troffe, troofe, 7 trof, trofe, trouff; γ. 5 throwhe, 6 throuh, Sc. throch, -t, 7 through.
[Com. Teutonic: OE. troᵹ, OFris. trog, OS. trog (MLG., LG., EFris. trog, MDu. troch(-gh), Du. trog), OHG., MHG. troc (trog), Ger. trog, ON. trog (Sw. tråg, Da. trug, Norw. dial. trog, trugh (traug, trau):—OTeut. *truᵹoz, Indo-Eur. *druko-, deriv. of dru, tree, wood, timber; primary meaning ‘wooden vessel’.]
1. a. A narrow open box-like vessel, of V-shaped or curved section, made of wood, stone, metal, or earthenware, and often a fixture, to contain liquid; esp. a drinking-vessel for domestic animals; also, a tank or vat used for washing, kneading, brewing, tanning, fulling, and various other purposes. (Often with prefix, as drinking-, hog-, horse-, kneading-, pig-, water-trough, etc.: see the first element.)
αc725Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 425 Canthera, troᵹ.a800Erfurt Gloss. 1140 Albeus (v), genus vasis, troᵹ.c950Lindisf. Gosp. John xiii. 5 Soðða sende þat uæter in troᵹ and ongann geðoa foet ðara ðeᵹna.c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 68 Do on troh hate stanas.Ibid. 326 ᵹecnua ealle wel, leᵹe on hatne stan on troᵹe, ᵹeot hwon wæteres on.11..Rec. Gifts of Adeluuold (963–84) in Birch Cart. Sax. III. 367, vi bidenfate & ii cuflas & þry troᵹas & lead & trefet.c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 155 De un rastuer, a douwribbe, le auge, a trow.1382Wyclif Gen. xxiv. 20 She, heldynge out the water pot into the water trowis,..ȝaue to alle the camelis.c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 123 Thanne wil I be bynethe..And se how þat the Mele falles doun In to the trough [v.rr. trogh, trow, troughe].c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxxiii, Þe trowegh fillede with clene water.c1460Registr. Aberdon. (Maitl. Cl.) II. 85 In brasina vnum plumbum cum cuppa que dicitur Masfate vel caldarium. et algeam que dicitur le trovch.1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 51 Moldyng trowghes [for leaden shot].a1500Kyng & Hermit 486 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 32 Till two trowys he gan him lede; Off venyson there was many brede.1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 188 Take iij. C. weight orchell drye grounde and doo it in a trouthe.1535Aberdeen Regr. XV. (Jam.), Ane troycht & tua aiking buyrdis.1536Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) IV. 87 Ane lyme trowcht.1546Inv. Ch. Goods (Surtees No. 97) 132 One stone troght.a1550Freiris of Berwyk 210 in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) 292 Hyd ȝou..Into ȝone troich... It held a boll of meill quhen that we buke.1583in Wadley Bristol Wills (1886) 234 My howse wch I [a tanner] nowe dwell in wth vates and trowes.1632in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1848) 301 All manner of traughts for Bakers.1710–11Swift Jrnl. to Stella 25 Mar., We have let Guiscard be buried at last, after shewing him pickled in a trough this fortnight for two pence apiece.1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 245 The old original trough at the corner of the road.1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 534 In troughs of water mixed with fuller's earth.1859G. Meredith Juggling Jerry x, You shan't beg from the troughs and tubs.
β1545Joye Exp. Dan. iv. 56 The vnthrifty sone..at last was compelled to come to the hoggis troffe for hunger.1574N. Daniel in Grosart Spenser's Wks. I. 422 A pulpitt, many swynes troofe better.1620Inv. in Essex Rev. (1907) XVI. 206 A payer of Quarnes, a kneedinge trof, and shellves 2s.1626Ibid. (1906) XV. 67 One knedinge trofe.1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xx. (Roxb.) 246/2 A Tallow Trough, and of some termed a Trouff, it is to let the Tallow in working drop or run into it.
γc1440Promp. Parv. 503/2 Throwhe, vessel (K., S. trow, P. trough), alveus.a1539Cartular. Abb. de Rievalle (Surtees) 340 The Bruehouse vi kelynge throuhs of lede, ii coper vesselles.1560Aberdeen Regr. (1844) 329 Lawaris and throchtis of brass.a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) I. 254 Some..burned the through, broke the kievve, demolished the house.
b. A small vessel of similar shape used in chemistry, photography, microscopy, etc.
1819Pantologia s.v., In [operations with] gasses absorbable by water the trough must be filled..with mercury.1826Pneumatic trough [see pneumatic 2].1827Faraday Chem. Manip. i. 20 The mercurial trough.1831Brewster Nat. Magic iv. (1833) 79 A trough having two of its sides parallel, and made of plate glass.1853W. Gregory Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 68 Closing the tube with the finger, and inverting it, with the open end under water in a basin or trough.
c. fig. In contempt, A person who is a mere receptacle for liquor; a toper.
1613Fletcher, etc. Captain iv. iii, This drunken trowgh has killed him.1899Lumsden Edinb. Poems & Songs 131 A thae trochs are drucken slochs.
d. fig. A place where food is provided, spec. a dining-table; hence, a meal. colloq.
1901‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 95 We left the mob just as all hands were paddling off to the ice-cream trough.1915F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier i. iii. 38 Why shouldn't we all eat out of the same trough—that's a nasty New York saying.1930Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves! iv. 96 The Bellinger..had sung us a few songs before digging in at the trough.1965New Statesman 14 May 777/1 Things are a bit different at the old trough these days.1981‘M. Innes’ Lord Mullion's Secret viii. 68 If he didn't stir his stumps he would be late for the trough.
e. In various fig. phrases applied to a ready source of income, esp. one shared by unscrupulous persons. colloq.
1906J. London Let. 20 Oct. (1966) 212 All I can tell you is, that you've got your feet in the trough.1971P. Tamony Americanisms (typescript) No. 28. 2 Local pimps and fast-buck boys who had hustled to the troughs for fat-staff salaries.1974L. Deighton Spy Story iv. 47 I'm going to find out what it's costing. We can't go on eating our heads off at the public trough.1981J. D. MacDonald Free Fall in Crimson xvi. 186 The money would come..to Josie, and you would be able to stay in the trough.
2. In spec. uses:
a. An oblong vessel containing the water in which a grindstone runs; also transf. the stone itself, or the place where it stands; a workman's compartment in a grindery.
1725T. Thomas in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 144 Most of their wheels and troughs (as they call those places where these grindstones are).1743in H. S. Wyndham Ann. Cov. Gard. Theatre (1906) II. 312 A grind⁓stone handle and trough.1839S. Roberts Tom & Charles in Yorkshire Tales 130 The building itself is generally the property of one person, but he lets off, to different grinders, what are denominated the Troughs, or the parts in which each grinding-stone is fixed.1884W. H. Rideing in Harper's Mag. June 79/1 The lower part of the stones touches a long vessel containing water, and by a technical peculiarity each stone is called a ‘trough’.1892Labour Commission Gloss. s.v., It is customary to speak of the trough not only as the actual vessel..but as..the portion of the room containing the trough. In this sense.. local.
b. An oblong box with divisions serving as the cells of a voltaic battery; also short for trough-battery.
1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 150 Having constructed a very powerful Galvanic trough, I have tried its effects..with very satisfactory results.Ibid. 153 My trough contains about 1280 square inches of metallic surface; at first I did not use above four or five pair of plates.1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 277 This apparatus..combines the principle of the battery with glasses and that of the common trough.1866R. M. Ferguson Electr. §79 The inner surface of the trough is coated with an insulating substance.
c. Mining. (a) An oblong tank in which ores are washed; a rocker or buddle; (b) A passage cut through a wall or pillar of coal: = thirling vbl. n.1 2 (Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).
1877Knight Dict. Mech., Trough.., a frame, vat, buddle, or rocker in which ores or slimes are washed and sorted.
d. See quot.
1877Knight Dict. Mech., Trough,..the tray or vat containing the metallic solution used in electro-plating.
e. Typog. A metal-lined box in which stones, inking-rollers, and forms are washed.
1891in Cent. Dict.1892Labour Commission Gloss. s.v., A trough in the printing industry is a box, lined with lead, with pieces of wood laid across for stones to rest on; the water runs off from the stone into the trough.
3. A small primitive boat; sometimes app. a canoe hollowed out of a solid block of wood (obs.); also locally applied to various kinds of boats or barges: see trow n.2
c893K. ælfred Oros. ii. v. §6 He eft wæs biddende anes lytles troᵹes æt anum earman men.1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §1 Their troughes barges botes and other vessells passing..on the said River of Severne.1555R. Tomson in Hakluyt Voy. (1600) III. 454 A great caue or ditch of water..where come euery morning at the break of the day twentie or thirtie Canoas, or troughes of the Indians.1570Levins Manip. 217/24 A Trough, bote, linter.1574R. Eden tr. Taisner's De Natura Magnetis Ded., If none had proceeded further then the inuentions of our predecessors, we..had yet haue sayled in troughes or in boates.1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. xvii. (1810) 658 No boats nor troughs to passe them over into Connaght.1869Pall Mall G. 21 Sept. 6 In Weymouth Bay..Four fishermen went out in a boat known as a ‘trough’, a little flat-bottomed craft, to fish for herrings.
4. a. A stone tomb or coffin. Cf. through n.1 2. Now dial.
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. ccxiii. 230 In case that ye may kepe my body from tourment,..laye it in a troughe of stone, and hyll it with lede close and iuste [cf. quot. c 1400 s.v. through n.1 2 β].1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 486 A little trough or coffin, very cunningly and finely wrought of Marble.a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts ix. 155 In one of the Mounts..there were found three Troughs containing broken Bones.1876Mid-Yorks. Gloss., Trough.., a coffin, of old shape; a stone cistern.
b. App. confused with through n.1 3, a flat grave-stone. Obs.
1501Bury Wills (Camden) 83 Also I wyll that the tabernacle of Seynt Jamys..and the troues of the auter ther by, be well and suffyciently peyntyd.1588Knaresborough Wills (Surtees) I. 163 My bodye to be buryed in Fuiston churche yeard under my grandfather trough.
5. A channel, pipe, or trunk for conveying water; a conduit; a gutter fixed under the eaves of a building; Sc. (pl.) the channel conducting the water to a mill-wheel. Now dial. (usually trow).
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxxi. (Tollem. MS.), Trowes and condites made of pine tre, and leyde deep under erþe dureþ many ȝeres.1554Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1871) II. 309 The beitting and mending of the fyve Commoun Mylnis, making of thair haill watter wallis, scheitts and trouchtis.1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions Pref. 10 By conduicte of pipes and troughes, and such other conueyance.1678Phillips (ed. 4), Trough,..a hollow thing made of Boards, and lying open for the Conveyance of Water.1792A. Young Trav. France 137 All the houses at Nancy have tin eave troughs and pipes.1808–18Jamieson, Trow, the wooden spout in which water is carried to a mill-wheel.1825Ibid., Trows s. pl., properly..the troughs which conduct the water to the mill-wheel.1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Trow, a wooden channel for air or water.1901Lawson Remin. Dollar Acad. 112 He washed himself..in the small lade or ‘trows’ which conveyed the water from the burn at the bleaching-green.
6. a. A hollow or valley resembling a trough; the bed or channel of a stream, or the depressed tract through which it flows; spec. in Geol. a basin-shaped depression, a syncline (longer than broad).
1513Douglas æneis ix. i. 76 Lyke as sum tyme Ganges, the flude Indane,..In hys deip trowch now flowis esely.1719Hamilton Ep. to Ramsay 24 July xvii, Mony a lang and weary wimple, Like trough of Clyde.1796W. Marshall W. England II. 175 Mountain heights..partially severed by deep rich Vallies or ‘Troughs’—as they are called.1819Lockhart Peter's Lett. lxxiv. III. 299 The whole valley, or strath, or trough of the Clyde.1854Murchison Siluria viii. 155 These schists and limestones are overlain in the contiguous troughs by other rocks.1862W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 78 The long troughs of woodland where the deer and the streamlets wander.1883Good Words July 438/2 It is therefore a question how far the ocean troughs may have the antiquity assigned to them.
b. In full trough of the sea, the hollow on the surface between two waves. Also fig., esp. as in a (or the) trough.
a1625Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301), Y⊇ Trowgh of the Sea..when wee lay a Shipp vnder the Sea, (..her broadeside to the Sea) wee saie shee lies in ye Trowgh of the Sea.1699W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. 64 The ship by the mistake of him that con'd, broched to, and lay in the trough of the Sea.1762–9Falconer Shipwr. ii. 890 Still in the yawning trough the vessel reels, Ingulf'd beneath two fluctuating hills.1856Mrs. Stowe Dred xvii, Tom..never is himself; always up on a wave, or down in the trough.1886Froude Oceana ii. 21 The engines stopped, the ship lay rolling in the trough of the sea broadside on to the waves.1942C. S. Lewis Let. 20 Jan. (1966) 199 Sorry you're in a trough. I'm just emerging..from a long one myself.1958Sunday Times 9 Nov. 15/3 E. Nesbit..has therefore been ‘in the trough’—widely read, ardently admired, but neglected as a subject for critical appraisals.1977Listener 28 July 123/3 At the moment his [sc. E. M. Forster's] reputation is in the trough; it is said that he is a slight talent, overpraised for extraneous reasons.
c. Meteorol. A line or elongated region of lower barometric pressure between two regions of higher.
1882W. Marriott in Standard 26 Dec. 7/4 At right angles to the path of a cyclone there is always a line running through the centre, called the trough, where the barometer reading is the lowest.1887R. Abercromby Weather ii. (1888) 30 If we look at the barometer-trace at any one place, the ‘ups’ and ‘downs’ suggest the analogy of waves, so that the lowest part of a trace may be called a ‘trough’.1904Westm. Gaz. 10 May 6/2 A long trough of low barometric pressure now lies over the southern parts of our islands.
d. Econ. The lowest level of economic activity or prosperity reached during a recession.
1916G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion Pref. p. lxvi, Basing..our whole industrial system on successive competitive waves of overwork with their ensuing troughs of unemployment.1930Economist 29 Mar. 691/1 We are, in fact, in the trough of a depression.1960Ibid. 8 Oct. 161/2 Even if the recession does not reach its trough until well into the spring.1981Daily Tel. 9 July 1/6 There is now firmer evidence that the trough in the recession has been reached, said the Treasury yesterday.
e. Hence, the lowest point in a period of any varying quantity; the time when this occurs. Also, the representation of this state on a graph; a point in a wave-form at which the varying quantity is a minimum. Cf. crest n.1 7 e, peak n.2 5 e.
1938British Birds XXXII. 214 This is followed by a more or less distinct trough, after which numbers rapidly increase to a higher autumn peak by mid September.1958Listener 16 Oct. 605/1 Absence of distortion and the avoidance of marked peaks and troughs in the amplitude-frequency characteristic.1971Physics Bull. Aug. 462/2 Such currents tend to pile electrons in the potential troughs of the wave and denude the crests.1976Daily Tel. 22 Mar. 7/1 Chromatography splits the sample into its volatile chemical constituents, and draws an alpine graph with heady peaks and troughs to represent the chemicals coming through.
7. attrib. and Comb., as trough form, trough frame, trough-meat, trough plate (sense 2 b), trough-sailing (see sense 3), trough-stone; trough-like, trough-shaped adjs.; also trough battery, a voltaic battery consisting of a number of cells in a trough (sense 2 b); trough-closet: see quot.; trough core Geol.: see quot.; trough-current, the current produced by a moving vessel; trough fault Geol.: see quot.; trough flooring, steel troughing riveted together to form the floor of a bridge; trough garden, a miniature garden comprising a group of small plants, often alpine ones, grown in a trough-like container of real or imitation stone; cf. sink garden s.v. sink n.1 14; trough girder, an iron girder shaped like a trough; trough gutter, a box-like channel for drainage; a rain-water pipe of this form; trough-joint, trough limb Geol.: see quots.; trough mercury, the mercury used in a pneumatic trough; trough roof U.S.: see quot.; trough shell, a mollusc of the family Mactridæ.
1841Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XXI. 665/2 A valuable modification of the ‘couronne des tasses’, called the *trough battery.1878G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone 260 A trough battery of six cells.
1870Corfield Treatm. Sewage 121 What are called *trough-closets have been erected in Liverpool... A long trough is placed below and behind the seats of a series of closets.
1911Encycl. Brit. X. 598 The innermost strata in a fold constitute the ‘core’, arch-core, or *trough core.
1843Mech. Mag. XXXVIII. 70/1 The *trough-current can only act against the front of the screw and the bevelled or slanting sides of the recess.
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, *Trough fault, a wedge-shaped fault, or, more correctly, a mass of rock, coal, &c., let down in between two faults.
1911Encycl. Brit. IV. 538 The *trough flooring, 3/8 in. thick and 6 in. deep, is rivetted to the longitudinals.
1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 244 In the *trough form of battery this [short circuit] is caused by leakage.
1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. (1842) 318 A flap fixed to this end of the *trough frame, which..may be used when there is occasion.
[1923Times 31 May 10/7 Mr. Clarence Elliot's attempt at providing miniature alpine gardens in old stone troughs..would undoubtedly provide much interest where space was too limited for real gardening.]1935C. Elliott Rock Garden Plants 288 An invaluable small thing for spilling about and filling up odd sunny corners, and perfect on the *trough rock garden.1950W. E. Shewell-Cooper Home, Window & Roof Gardening viii. 70 The Trough Garden..can be a great joy to the rock garden lover.1979M. Soames Clementine Churchill xxviii. 471 Here Clementine made a ‘trough’ garden.
1883Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railw. 48 The superstructure is to consist of two wrought-iron *trough girders carrying the rails.
1856S. C. Brees Gloss. Terms, *Trough gutter, a sort of sunk or enclosed gutter, about 8 or 10 inches wide, and adopted with advantage in exposed situations. The wooden trunks employed as gutters for sheds and common buildings..are also known by this name.
1865Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2), *Trough-joint, the fissure or joint which frequently accompanies the abrupt bending of strata passing through the middle of the curvature.
1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc. iii. 43 These rocks rested in a *trough-like cavity extending east and west.1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 109 A trough-like depression between two ridges.
1911Encycl. Brit. X. 598 In a fold of this kind we have an ‘arch limb’, a middle limb, and a floor or ‘*trough limb’.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 71 The whole have hay or *trough-meat..on wet or stormy nights.
1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xx. (1842) 554 These chemical cleansings of the *trough mercury are intended to destroy the disposition which exists in impure mercury to form films upon its surface.
Ibid. xvii. (1842) 457 The wires are soldered to plates equal in size to those of the troughs,..though they may not touch the *trough plates.
1905U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry Bulletin lxi, *Trough roof, a roof on a logging camp or barn, made of small logs split lengthwise, hollowed into troughs and laid from ridge pole to eaves.
1855J. D. Maclaren in Mem. vii. (1861) 134, I could almost resume the bathing and the *trough-sailing.
1871Nesbitt Catal. Slade Coll. Glass 77 A *trough-shaped spout.
1867Lovell Edible Mollusks 152 Mactra solida, Linnæus. *Trough shell.
1470–1Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 643 Pro nova factura unius le *Troughstane pro aqueductu in gardino.1587Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) II. 157 In the brewhowsse. One brew lead..j maskefatte and a trogh⁓stone.1854Murchison Siluria xiii. 329 Yellow sandstones..extensively used as..trough-stones.
Hence ˈtroughful, as much as a trough will hold; ˈtroughster, one who feeds at a trough, a pig; ˈtroughwise adv., as or like a trough; troughy |ˈtrɒfɪ, -ɔː-| a., characterized by troughs.
1877Honourable Miss Ferrard I. v. 128 A *troughful of buttermilk.1891Daily News 30 Oct. 5/6 Wheaten flour, which I distributed among them by troughfulls.
1892G. Meredith Ode to Comic Spirit 19 The poor smoke Struck from a puff-ball, or the *troughster's grunt.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. i. (1895) 31 The shyppes that they founde fyrste were made playne, flatte, and broade in the botome, *troughewyse.
1877Beer Prophet of Nineveh i. iv. 58 She plunges heavy in the *troughy seas.
II. trough, v.|trɒf, -ɔː-|
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans.
a. To furnish with a trough or troughs for irrigation or drainage. dial. Obs.
b. Geol. To form into a trough or into the shape of a trough.
c. To treat in some way in a trough; to stain, gauge, or mould in a trough.
1668Demise of Coal Mine (Arncliffe Hall MSS.), To carry a sough or watergate through the demised ground..and to leave the same trowed and scoured.1839Murchison Silur. Syst. i. xxix. 388 This spur reposes conformably on the Old Red Sandstone..being troughed between the latter and the ridge of Old Red Sandstone to the South of it.1872W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks viii. 277 The Pilton rocks are rolled and troughed to a great extent about Ashford.1881Greener Gun 254 The same method of troughing is required to brown them a dark brown.1887Daily News 20 May 3/2 Sword-bayonets..in store were re-tested,..being sprung round a curved block 2½ inches high,..troughed and gauged.1905Daily Chron. 25 July 4/4 Cottages which have unusual features..—concrete troughed between upright timbers.
2. intr. To feed at or as at a trough; to feed swinishly.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. 168 What miry wallowers the generality of men of our class are in themselves, and constantly trough and sty with.
3. Mining. Of a vein: To dip. Obs. rare.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. R ij, When Veins or Pipes take a chop up higher than ordinary into their proper Lids, whethersoever the Lids be Stone, Mixt-beds, &c., this is opposite to Troughing or Choping down.
Hence troughed |trɒft, -ɔː-| ppl. a., troughing |ˈtrɒfɪŋ, -ɔː-| vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1897Daily News 31 Dec. 2/1 A rather lumbering looking ‘troughing’ machine automatically scours the edges with emery until the embryo sword-bayonet will just fit in flat into a gauge or ‘trough’.1898G. Meredith Odes Fr. Hist., Napoleon vi, Heap over heap [of horses and men] Right through the troughed black lines turned to bunches or shreds, or a fog.
III. trough
obs. form of troth.

 

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