Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A shallow, usually oval gardening basket made with wide strips of wood.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A trollop; a trull.
  • noun A hod for mortar.
  • noun A measure of wheat, as much as was carried in a trough, three trugs making two bushels.
  • noun A kind of wooden basket for carrying vegetables, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A trough, or tray.
  • noun A hod for mortar.
  • noun An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
  • noun obsolete A concubine; a harlot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chiefly UK A shallow, oval basket used for gardening
  • noun obsolete A trough or tray.
  • noun obsolete A hod for mortar.
  • noun obsolete An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
  • noun obsolete A concubine; a harlot.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, a shallow wooden tray, measure of corn, perhaps from Old Norse trog, trough; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]

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Compare trough.

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