English-French translations for trough

auge abreuvoir
buvoir
creux
La pêche est parfois passée dans le creux de la vague. Fisheries swam through many a trough.
gouttière
mangeoire
Je tiens à souligner que le principe du pollueur-payer doit être appliqué de manière cohérente sur l'ensemble de la chaîne, de la mangeoire jusque dans l'assiette. I would like to point out that the polluter pays principle needs to be applied consistently throughout the whole chain - from trough to table.
thalweg

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals
Any similarly shaped container
A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates
A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough
A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel
A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front
To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough

One of Hanks chores was to slop the pigs trough each morning and evening.
Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
he troughed his way through three meat pies.

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