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trough

a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed) (= gutter) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater a long narrow shallow receptacle (= manger) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed (= bowl) a concave shape with an open top (= public treasury) a treasury for government funds

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The wavelength is the distance from crest to crest, or from trough to trough.

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Must be the damp trough creaking.
The body was placed on a trough and carried for several miles through the thickets.
Like when you took Pierrot down to Trough St. That was nice.
On Trough Street?
Get back to your trough, both of you.
That's a horse trough.
It must be behind the water trough.
Get on up to that trough there!
But that young, trough-fed Mrs. Penmark. she might get kind of Ionesome with that soldier boy of hers gone.
When the trough is empty, we fight like beasts.
The poor fellow, the blood rushed out of his face. and I thought he'd keel over in the horse trough.
I don't want to pick a man out of a horse trough!
Here's the kneading trough.
He stepped in that puddle by the trough.
One day, the door. The next, the trough.
But that young, trough-fed Mrs. Penmark she might get kind of lonesome with that soldier boy of hers gone.
You'll have to gulp it right from a trough.
They're just heading for the water trough.
He'll have muddy boots. He stepped in that puddle by the trough.
I let them walk right up and stick my head in the water trough. and it was easy for them.
Take him out to the horse trough and sober him up.
I wallow in her warmth like a pig in a trough.
Go stick your head in the water trough and sober up for lunch.
You just can't keep hogs away from the trough, can you?
The pressure is described by this isobaric curve, which is forcing this low trough off to the east.
He grabbed his bottom, ran for the watering trough, sat down in it.
I think, the stagecoach to Fairwood drives trough there.
Well, Jerry, if he threw you in the water trough, I guess you had it comin' to you.
No tinhorn marshal's gonna throw me in a horse trough and get away with it.
You'll see the Milky Way, slide of the Heavens and a trough for space horses.
Drown him in the trough.
Let my prayer flly to you, guard over me the whole night trough.
Anther day to live trough.
Let that truck trough.

News and current affairs

I have fed at its trough many times - as a personal guest; as an advisory board member of Stop Badware, an NGO it sponsors; and as a speaker at its events.
On the contrary, Hoover and other figures argued in a perfectly modern, Keynesian fashion that large-scale public-works programs were needed to pull the economy out of the trough.
Many bankers, meanwhile, are back to the trough as though nothing had happened.
From the trough of the recession, the economy recovered the lost jobs in eight months on average.
From the trough of recessions, recovery to pre-recession output levels took less than two quarters on average, and employment recovered within eight months.
It means being in a different clan, at a different part of the feeding trough.
During the financial crisis, it had to moderate these views considerably, taking steps that ran counter to its ideology: increasing deficits in the trough of the crisis (2009-2010) and raising taxes once growth resumed (2011).
Having more than doubled since its crisis-induced trough, the US equity market - not to mention its amply rewarded upper-income shareholders - has been the principal beneficiary of the Fed's unconventional policy gambit.
As each preceding generation of rulers cashes in its illicit gains from holding power, the successors are motivated by both the desire to loot even more and the fear that there may not be much left by the time they get their turn at the trough.
For example, labor-force participation, which usually stops falling and starts rising after the business-cycle trough, has been steadily declining over the past two and a half years.

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