troughing
troughing is the present participle and gerund of trough.
Meaning of trough
Verb
trough (third-person singular simple present troughs, present participle troughing, simple past and past participle troughed)
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
- He troughed his way through three meat pies.
Noun
troughing (countable and uncountable, plural troughings)
- A system of troughs.
- troughing for signalling cables
- The decking of the bridge consisted of steel troughing over an average clear span of 26 ft., the troughing being filled in with concrete to form the road surface.1958 May, “Widening at Dun Laoghaire, C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 342
Forms of troughing
| plural | troughings |
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Questions about troughing
- What does troughing mean?
- Troughing means a system of troughs.
- What is troughing the present participle and gerund of?
- Troughing is the present participle and gerund of trough.
- What part of speech is troughing?
- Troughing is a noun.
- What is the plural of troughing?
- The plural of troughing is troughings.
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