TROUGH, sb. Var. dial. forms and uses in Sc. and
Eng. [trof; trou.] I. Dial. forms. 1. sing.: (1)
Thruff, (2) Thrugh, (3) Trauf, (4) Trauth, (5) Traw, (6)
Troaf, (7) Troch, (8) Trofe, (9) Troff, (10) Trou, (11)
Trouch, Trouche, (12) Trouf, (13) Trov, (14) Trove, (15) Trow,
(16) Trowf, (17) Trowh, (18) Truff.
(1, 2) e.Lan.1 (3) Cmb. Hartshorne Salop. Antiq. (1841). (4)
Suf.1 (5) Brks.1 Dev. ‘You'll find it by the traw.’ ‘Traw’ rhymes
with ‘know,’ Reports Provinc. (1889). nw.Dev.1 (6) Nhp. Hartshorne
Salop. Antiq. (1841); Nhp.1 (7) Sc. Out o' trochs on
garbage, Hislop Anecdote (1874) 181. Cai.1 Gall. A blacksmith
lately thought it might answer him for a troch, Mactaggart
Encycl. (1824) 302, ed. 1876. Wgt. A fill a troch fou o' water,
Fraser Wigtown (1877) 364. w.Yks. Ooncle always calls a pig-trough
a troch (F.P.T.). (8) s.Wor. (H.K.) (9) Cum.1 (10)
Nhb.1, Dur.1 (11) Sc. (Jam.) Sh.I. Ane o' da grittest crappin'
heads i' da trouch, Stewart Tales (1892) 244. (12) n.Lan.1 (13)
n.Lin.1 (14) Ch.I. Hartshorne Salop. Antiq. (1841). (15) Sc.
(Jam.) Sh.I. Da men 'at's apo da trow o't noo, Sh. News (July 10,
1897). Cld. (Jam.), Nhb.1, e.Dur.1, n.Yks.1, w.Yks.2, nw.Der.1,
Shr.1, Hrf.2 s.Pem. Laws Little Eng. (1888) 422. Glo.1, e.An.1,
Suf. (Hall.) Sur. We've got a new trow for the pigs, N. & Q.
(1878) 5th S. x. 222. Hmp.1, w.Som.1 Dev. Reports Provinc.
(1889). nw.Dev.1 (16) Cum.1, s.Lan.1 (17) Cum.1 (18) Lei.1,
Nhp.1, War.2, Shr.2
2. pl. (1) Troves, (2) Trowes, (3) Trown, (4) Trows, Trowse.
(1) w.Yks. Faantans squirting watter abaght into troves an little
ponds, Treddlehoyle Bairnsla Ann. (1853) 4. se.Wor.1 (2)
Dmb. A queer invention some ca' trowes, Taylor Poems (1827)
109. (3) Dor. Reports Provinc. (1889). Dev. ‘The water be
standing in the trown.’ Very rare except in Dorset, Reports Provinc. (4) Sc.
(Jam.) Lth. There's nae water rinnin'... down out o' the trows,
Strathesk More Bits (ed. 1885) 184. Gall. To receive the water
after it leaves the trowse, Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 35, ed.
1876. w.Yks.1
II. Dial. uses. 1. Any stone vessel hollowed out to
contain water; a stone cistern.
Sc. (A.W.) n.Yks.1 The word was applied by the finder to an
‘Ancient-British’ predecessor of the quern, in the writer's
possession; being a hard stone with a dish-shaped hollow wrought
in it. m.Yks.1, w.Yks. (J.W.)
Hence Trough-stone, sb. a stone trough.
Lth. Doun fa's the thick an' grizly weet, Plout, ploutin' on our
auld trough-stane, Ballantine Poems (1856) 27. Edb. His
smiddie ye'll ken by the twa trough stanes At the auld door-cheeks,
Maclagan Poems (1851) 174. Nhb.1 Sit doon, Andra, on
the trou steahyn, Bewick Tyneside Tales (ed. 1850) 10.
2. A walled drain for carrying away water. e.Lan.1
3. The wooden conduit along which water is carried to
a mill-wheel; often used in pl.
Sc. (Jam.), Cai.1 Kcd. At Clinter Mill a mealer lay,..
unweigh't, unseckit i' the troch, Grant Lays (1884) 5. Dmb. Ye
can bring water ower heights and howes And put big wheels in
motion, By a queer invention some ca' trowes, Taylor Poems
(1827) 109. Gall. Awse of a mill wheel ─ Those boards fixed on
the periphery of a wheel, to receive the water after it leaves the
trowse for the purpose of moving machinery, Mactaggart Encycl.
(1824) 35, ed. 1876.
4. pl. The holes for holding water round the outside of
a water-wheel. n.Yks. (I.W.) 5. A long wooden dish
used in common by a family.
Sh.I. She lifted ane o' da grittest crappin' heads i' da trouch
an' laid it afore me, Stewart Tales (1892) 244; Sh.&Ork.1
6. A hollow; a ditch.
Dev. A hedge trough, Horae Subsecivae (1777) 441; The water
be standing in the trown (of the plough ridges), Reports Provinc.
(1889).
7. A dish or depression in stratified rocks. Nhb.1,
w.Yks.2 8. Obs. The lower ground through which a
river runs; also in phr. the trough of the water.
Cld. The view we had from these heights, of the whole valley,
or strath, or trough of the Clyde upwards, is by far the richest
thing I have yet seen north of the Tweed, Lockhart Peter's Lett.
(1819) III. 299 (Jam.). Lnk. (Jam.)
9. A workman's compartment in a building used for
grinding cutlery. w.Yks. Roberts Tom and Charles (1850)
12. 10. A coffin, of ancient shape. m.Yks.1 Cf.
through, sb.2
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SHUTE TROUGH, sb. Dev. A sink. Reports Provinc.
(1902). See Shoot, sb. 3 (1).

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