Meaning
2 sensesA 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
A section of a bow of a ship partitioned from the hawsehole to keep water out.
Examples
9 sentencesDo the oxen bellow when their mangers are full?
Хіба ревуть воли, як ясла повні?
Don't be a dog in the manger.
ruНе будь собакой на сене.
Tom acts like a dog in the manger.
Tom offered to help Mary set up the manger.
The horse should go to the manger, not the manger to the horse.
deDas Pferd soll zur Krippe gehn, nicht die Krippe zum Pferd.
Translations
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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: mangersSynonyms
1 synonyms- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed:trough