MANGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manger mean? 

• MANGER (noun)
  The noun MANGER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MANGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

manger; trough

Hypernyms ("manger" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manger"):

bunk; feed bunk (a long trough for feeding cattle)

 Context examples 

The company assembled in the long salle a manger, that evening, was such as one sees nowhere but on the Continent.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The horse made me a sign to go in first; it was a large room with a smooth clay floor, and a rack and manger, extending the whole length on one side.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Not being a dog in the manger, but the happiest fellow alive, I assure you I can dance at Jo's wedding with a heart as light as my heels.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Their mangers were placed circular in the middle of the room, and divided into several partitions, round which they sat on their haunches, upon bosses of straw.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the middle was a large rack, with angles answering to every partition of the manger; so that each horse and mare ate their own hay, and their own mash of oats and milk, with much decency and regularity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)