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Trough

A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel.

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Bunk 76% connected

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Chute 76% connected

A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a whee…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cradle 76% connected

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in t…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cullis 76% connected

A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly.

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Rocker 76% connected

One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.

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Slide 76% connected

To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

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Swale 76% connected

A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.

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Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Concavity 76% connected

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

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Container 76% connected

One who, or that which, contains.

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Depression 76% connected

The act of depressing.

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Exchequer 76% connected

One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.

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Incurvation 76% connected

The act of bending, or curving.

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Receptacle 76% connected

That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.

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Treasury 76% connected

A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is dis…

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Containing whole 1

Saddleback 70% connected

Same as Saddle-backed.

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Synonym 4

Bowl 92% connected

A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gutter 92% connected

A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Manger 92% connected

A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Till 92% connected

A vetch; a tare.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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