feed-trough

Night were warm in July with the Delta breeze keeping back at the coast and Lobo was already a horse you had to trick to eat sometimes by changing the look of the food, spreading a flake out on the floor from his feed-trough, or sometimes getting a new flake for him, especially if the oat hay was dry and yellow, and none of this Aileen knew about.

Quarters, Pasos, Arabians Chris Sheehan 2011

Yea, in the stone feed-trough of a cattle shed was Jesus born because his father had not the price of keep at the inn.

The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock

Chasing a couple of cows that roamed at large, charging at a monster pile of household furnishings, barely avoiding the feed-trough, set in the center of the place, scattering men in all directions, and raising a dust like a concentrated storm, the broncho waxed more and more hot in the blood, more desperately wild to fling his rider headlong through the air.

The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels

"There you are," said Van, and swinging the bridle reins towards the waiting man, he walked to a feed-trough and leaned against it carelessly.

The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels

Except for the sleepy figure of the horse-picket, attempting vainly to keep his lanky person within the shadow of the feed-trough, there was no one in sight.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

Every teamster carried at the tail-board or hind gate of his wagon a feed-trough, and among other provender some fodder or hay, and all we had to do was to strike one of these red-headed matches and as it flared up stick it in among this combustible material, and the job was done.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

For the most part, the men with the feed-trough or the water-pail ignored her bounding and wrigglingly eager welcome as completely as though she were a part of the kennel furnishings.

Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907

Don't start pawin 'de groun' now, des caze yer heah me speculatin 'at yo' feed-trough.

Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

a bar-room, feed-trough, and cooler between fights.

Comic History of England Bill Nye 1873