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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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