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单词 hog trough
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hog troughn.

Brit. /ˈhɒɡ trɒf/, U.S. /ˈhɔɡ ˌtrɔf/, /ˈhɑɡ ˌtrɑf/
Forms:

α. 1500s–1600s hogges troughe, 1500s– hogs trough, 1600s hoggs trough, 1600s– hog's trough, 1700s– hogs' trough.

β. See hog n.1 and trough n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hog n.1, trough n.
Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of hog n.1 + trough n. In β. forms < hog n.1 + trough n.
1. A trough from which hogs eat; a pig trough. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding pigs > pig's trough
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hog trough1510
tray1714
1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula Magistri sig. Civv Aqualiculus, the hogges trough.
1587 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 247 2 hoggtroffes and an hogwashe Tubbe.
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D3 He falls like a hogs-trough that is set on one end.
1643 J. Taylor Noble Cavalier Caracterised 5 Which part of the Crosse M. Church-warden caused to be hewen by a Mason into a Hog-trough..but within two or three dayes all his Hogges and hoggish Beasts were strucken dead.
1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 77 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.
a1714 E. Freke Remembrances (2001) 180 I leave Mary in the back house and dary..3 hog trough 3 great milk pans.
1775 C. Lennox Old City Manners i. i. 4 As for you, Master Quicksilver, think of husks, for thy course is running directly to the prodigals hog-trough.
1800 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 323 A Scotch Hog-trough.
1855 ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, what he Says x. 83 After a long search [I] found him wrapped up in the colors, fast asleep with his head in a hog-trough.
1928 Iowa Recorder 12 Sept. 5/2 $5 buys a twelve foot pressure treated hog trough that will last you a ‘lifetime’.
1977 Issue 7 36/1 The innumerable institutes..and other such non-governmental organizations who have their collective hands in the Federal hog trough.
2003 T. Sitton Harder than Hardscrabble ii. 33 I don't know how those hogs could stand it, but she took the dishwater and fed it to the hogs. They had a hog trough, a V-shaped trough.
2. In ploughing: a trough-like hollow between two furrow-slices.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > a cavity or hollow
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holkc1000
dalkc1325
hollownessc1374
spaciosity?a1425
pitc1480
concavitya1513
doupa1522
capacity?1541
cavity?1541
concave?1541
vacuation?1541
vacuity?1541
sound1603
cave1605
ferme1612
ventriclea1631
core1663
want1664
uterus1692
excavation1781
hog trough1807
1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. vii. 200 I did not see one false furrow, or any tendency to a hog trough upon his whole farm.
1916 Iowa Homestead (Des Moines) 19 Oct. 8/3 If the driver will use good judgment all the furrows turned in a given field will look alike and there will be no ‘hog troughs’ to make the surface of the field unsightly.
1960 G. E. Evans Horse in Furrow ii. 34 And if a man had a bent furrow or a hog's trough (a hollow between two furrow slices) in his work, the mistake would soon be recorded in every farm and public house in the parish.
2003 Peterborough (Ont.) Examiner (Nexis) 29 Sept. b1 Keeping the furrows straight was important. And, my dad insisted there not be any hog troughs (wheels digging into furrows) or fish hooks (curls at furrow ends).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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