manger
a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.
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
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How to use manger in a sentence
The result was an email at 8:04 a.m. on Sept. 13 from Robert Durado, general manger the bridge.
In New Documents, the Bridgegate Cover Story Unravels | Michael Daly | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGabriel Jaramillo, the general manger of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, saw an opportunity.
Coke Applies Supply-Chain Expertise to Deliver AIDS Drugs in Africa | Daniel Gross | September 25, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBy the time I had done my toilette there was a tap at the door, and in another minute I was in the salle--manger.
Mrs. Haight was nasty, but I told her she did not know you the least little bit, that you were no dog in the manger.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonA broken broom, covered with very ancient cobwebs, lay under one manger, and the remnants of a stable-bucket under another.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. Harper
It was held round the little table in the salle manger, after Marie had brought coffee and gone out.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartThrough 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
/ (ˈmeɪndʒə) /
a trough or box in a stable, barn, etc, from which horses or cattle feed
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
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Other Idioms and Phrases with manger
see dog in the manger.
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