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manger


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Manger  \Man"ger\,  n.  [F.  mangeoire  fr  manger  to  eat,  fr  L. 
  manducare,  fr  mandere  to  chew.  Cf  {Mandible},  {Manducate}.] 
  1.  A  trough  or  open  box  in  which  fodder  is  placed  for  horses 
  or  cattle  to  eat. 
 
  2.  (Naut.)  The  fore  part  of  the  deck,  having  a  bulkhead 
  athwart  ships  high  enough  to  prevent  water  which  enters 
  the  hawse  holes  from  running  over  it 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  manger 
  n  :  a  container  (usually  in  a  barn  or  stable)  from  which  cattle 
  or  horses  feed  [syn:  {trough}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Manger 
  (Luke  2:7,  12,  16),  the  name  (Gr.  phatne,  rendered  stall"  in 
  Luke  13:15)  given  to  the  place  where  the  infant  Redeemer  was 
  laid.  It  seems  to  have  been  a  stall  or  crib  for  feeding  cattle. 
  Stables  and  mangers  in  our  modern  sense  were  in  ancient  times 
  unknown  in  the  East.  The  word  here  properly  denotes  "the  ledge 
  or  projection  in  the  end  of  the  room  used  as  a  stall  on  which 
  the  hay  or  other  food  of  the  animals  of  travellers  was  placed." 
  (See  {INN}.) 
 




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