manger

[ meyn-jer ]
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noun
  1. a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.

  2. Nautical.

    • a space at the bow of a ship, having a partition for confining water entering at the hawseholes until it can be drained.

    • a sunken bottom in a chain locker, covered by a grating and used to collect water from the anchor chain.

Origin of manger

1
1350–1400; Middle English <Middle French maingeure, derivative of mangier to eat <Latin mandūcāre to chew, eat. See manducate

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Manger
[ meyn-jer ]

nounAstronomy.

Origin of Manger

2
1545–55; as translation of Latin praesēpe

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How to use manger in a sentence

  • It was held round the little table in the salle manger, after Marie had brought coffee and gone out.

    The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Through its broken shutters came the yellow glow of the oil lamp that now hung over the table in the salle manger.

    The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts Rinehart

British Dictionary definitions for manger

manger

/ (ˈmeɪndʒə) /


noun
  1. a trough or box in a stable, barn, etc, from which horses or cattle feed

  2. nautical a basin-like construction in the bows of a vessel for catching water draining from an anchor rode or coming in through the hawseholes

Origin of manger

1
C14: from Old French maingeure food trough, from mangier to eat, ultimately from Latin mandūcāre to chew

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Other Idioms and Phrases with manger

manger

see dog in the manger.

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