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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Hampshire. Otway, the poet, was born at Trotton in 1651. Trough TROUGH, a township, in the parish of Stapleton, union of …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Trow [trowe] This is also a common variant spelling of TROUGH and dealt thereunder in these senses. A name for …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… if not in shape and manufacture, it was similar to the TROUGH, though some tubs had a TAP at the bottom, from which liquid could be drawn, an unlikely facility on the trough. Randle Holme had some useful generalizations about …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… and others concerned to pump their water through their own trough, or forbear conveying it so as to ruin their …
Warborough (Including Shillingford)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… a Reed or Pinn' and 'Set the Pin, is to put it into the Trough or hold of the Shuttle' [Holme (2000)]. However, the … The items included a WARPING BAR, a WARPING PIN, a WARPING TROUGH, a WARPING VAT and a sort of REEL similar to a SWIFT. … Not found in the OED Sources: Inventories (early). Warping trough [warpeing trough] Randle Holme described the 'Weaver's …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… water tubb; water and sand tubb] A TUB, used like a WATER TROUGH, for storing a supply of domestic water. However, note … bit so designed that it could not catch on the side of the trough or bucket. OED online earliest date of use: c1721 …