manger

man·ger

a box or trough to hold fodder for horses or cattle to eat

Origin of manger

Middle English from Old French mangeure from Vulgar Latin an unverified form manducatoria, feeding trough from past participle of Classical Latin manducare, to eat from mandere, to chew from Indo-European base an unverified form menth-, to chew from source mouth

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manger

noun

A trough or an open box in which feed for livestock is placed.

Origin of manger

Middle English from Old French mangeoire from mangier to eat from Latin mandūcāre from mandūcō glutton from mandere to chew

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Noun

(plural mangers)

A trough for animals to eat from.

Origin

From Old French mangoire, menjoere, from mangier (“to eat") (modern French manger).

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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.
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.
Dean finished dismantling the tree, cleaning up the remaining detritus of the holidays and packing away the delicate figures of a manger scene.
Again Sella was called upon, but again the dog-in-the-manger policy of Depretis, Cairoli, Nicotera and Baccarini, in conjunction with the intolerant attitude of some extreme Conservatives, proved fatal to his endeavours.
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).

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