manger

noun

A trough or an open box in which feed for livestock is placed.

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A trough or box in which is laid for horses or cattle such food as oats, bran, roots, or the like (hay being generally placed in a rack above the manger); the receptacle from which horses or cattle eat in a stable or cowhouse.

noun

Nautical, a small space at the forward end of the deck, divided off by a combing (called the manger-board), just back of the hawse-holes, to prevent the entrance of water through the latter when the after part of the deck is flooded.

noun

A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

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The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.

noun

A trough for animals to eat from.

noun

a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed