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Definition of Sloping trough
1. Noun. Sloping channel through which things can descend.
Specialized synonyms: Coal Chute, Runway, Water Chute
Generic synonyms: Gutter, Trough
Terms within: Skid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sloping Trough
Literary usage of Sloping trough
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year (1902)
"sloping trough : length, 6 feet 6 inches, width increasing from i foot to i foot
ii inches ; depth increasing from 6 inches to i foot 6 inches below the ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"... of the eastern fold that the contortion and metamorphism of its rocks are at
their maximum, while in the common and gently sloping trough of both folds, ..."
3. Handbook of Metallurgy by Carl Schnabel (1898)
"A vertical spout g is placed in front of these holes, through which the slime
runs into a sloping trough i. At the bottom of this trough are several ..."
4. Sanitation Practically Applied by Harold Bacon Wood (1917)
"It is used for watering the herd; when empty of feed the water introduced at one
end flows along the slightly sloping trough. Cows drink readily from it. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"A long narrow phce prepared for playing skittles, usually with a long sloping
trough down which the balls run back to the players. ..."
6. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1892)
"... while in the common and gently sloping trough of both folds, namely, the
intermediate Mississippi valley, the entire geological sequence remains ..."
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