SLOPING TROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sloping trough mean? 

• SLOPING TROUGH (noun)
  The noun SLOPING TROUGH has 1 sense:

1. sloping channel through which things can descend

  Familiarity information: SLOPING TROUGH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOPING TROUGH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sloping channel through which things can descend

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chute; slide; slideway; sloping trough

Hypernyms ("sloping trough" is a kind of...):

gutter; trough (a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater)

Meronyms (parts of "sloping trough"):

skid (one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects)

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

glacier mill; moulin (a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation)

coal chute (a chute for coal)

runway (a chute down which logs can slide)

water chute (chute with flowing water down which toboggans and inner tubes and people slide into a pool)