Meaning

2 senses
  1. A trough in a stable or barn for animals to eat from.

    Krippe, Trog

    корму́шкаkormúška, я́слиjásli

    годівни́цяhodivnýcja, я́слаjásla, жо́лобžólob

    a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed

  2. A section of a bow of a ship partitioned from the hawsehole to keep water out.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Do the oxen bellow when their mangers are full?

    Хіба ревуть воли, як ясла повні?

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  2. Don't be a dog in the manger.

    ruНе будь собакой на сене.

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  3. Tom acts like a dog in the manger.

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  4. Tom offered to help Mary set up the manger.

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  5. The horse should go to the manger, not the manger to the horse.

    deDas Pferd soll zur Krippe gehn, nicht die Krippe zum Pferd.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
trough for animals to eat from:
Русский
By meaning 1
trough for animals to eat from:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
trough for animals to eat from:

Origin

From Middle English manger, from Old French mangeoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat”) (

From Middle English manger, from Old French mangeoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat”) (modern French manger).

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Forms

plural: mangers
Singularmanger
Pluralmangers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed:trough

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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