Manger meaning

mān'jər
A trough or an open box in which feed for livestock is placed.
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A box or trough to hold fodder for horses or cattle to eat.
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A trough for animals to eat from.
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Origin of manger

  • Middle English from Old French mangeoire from mangier to eat from Latin mandūcāre from mandūcō glutton from mandere to chew
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Old French mangoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat") (modern French manger).
    From Wiktionary

Manger Sentence Examples

  • Dean finished dismantling the tree, cleaning up the remaining detritus of the holidays and packing away the delicate figures of a manger scene.

  • His books also have had large circulations; among them are The Almond Tree in Blossom (1870); Every Day Religion (1875); The Brooklyn Tabernacle (1884); From Manger to Throne (1895); and The Pathway of Life (1895).

  • A little to the east is the huge stone monument of C. Vibius, known to the Turks as Dikelitashlar and to the Greeks as the Manger of Bucephalus.

  • Other popular songs to look for include Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, The Christmas Song, and Christian hymns like Away in the Manger, The First Noel, and Angels We Have Heard on High, among others.

  • 254) mentions that in Bethlehem the cave was shown where Christ was born, and in it the manger in which Mary made the bed of her child.

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