What is "troughs"

Usage examples of "troughs".

Beside the gate, that fountain known as the Mercy of the Ila gushed from stonework mouths and ran out so profligately that it splashed from the fountain bowl to the troughs and some onto the stones of the street, to be trampled underfoot.

On the threshold she hesitated, because out in the main ward the grooms, pages, and menservants were leading the stabled horses out to drink in the watering troughs, so many that she might get kicked or stepped upon in the confusion.

The remaining water from the troughs went out by a drain hole, and into a stone-lined pit where waste and wastewater of the whole village collected.

Susan brought in five cups of coffee, one at a time the wild pitching of the campari, the jarring, jolting shocks as we crashed down into the troughs, made the carrying of more than one at a time impossible.

Under her direction, we bought dozens of flats of just-budding impatiens, petunia, and marigold, as well as two long troughs, and sacks of potting compost.

The cheerful pinks and yellows and violet in the two front troughs reminded me of something: the window boxes lining the smart Mayfair mews where my mother had lived the last two years.

Which meant, by the drip, that she must be below the pig troughs and therefore just five strides from the edge of the wood.

It ran out into troughs for the beasts only when a strong man pulled a lever and let it flow out.

People came and went here with jars, with waterskins, and crowded close not only about the drinking basin but about those troughs below it that were meant for beasts.

As she bumped over the rough corrugations of the tiles, she grasped at the dirt and moss that had taken hold in the troughs between the tile courses.