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hog-trough|ˈhɒgtrɒf, -ɔː-|
Also hog's trough.
a. A trough for hogs to feed out of; a pig-trough.
1530Palsgr. 231/2 Hogges troughe, auge à pourceaux. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse (1842) 26 He falls like a hog's trough that is set on one end. 1679Oldham Sat. Jesuits iv. 4 Once I was common Wood, a shapeless Log..The Workman yet in doubt, what course to take, Whether I'd best a Saint, or Hog-trough make. 1800Coleridge Lett. (1895) 323 A Scotch Hog-trough. 1855M. M. Thomson Doesticks x. 83 After a long search [I] found him wrapped up in the colors, fast asleep with his head in a hog-trough. 1972J. S. Hall Sayings from Old Smoky 87 Fifty years ago if a younger sister married first, folks would say the older sister ‘had to dance in the hog trough’.
b. A trough-like hollow = hog-wallow (see hog n.1 13 a).
1807A. Young Agric. Essex (1813) I. 200, I did not see one false furrow, or any tendency to a hog trough upon his whole farm. |