water trough

短语

词形变化

water troughs 复数 water troughs

别名

water-trough

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

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  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, trough: a watering trough for livestock.

词源

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”).

来源：wiktionary