#trough

• Drinker — An installation, trough, vessel, or specially designed device in a yard, pasture, or modern farm to ensure animals or birds have permanent and hygienic access to drinking water. In a traditional sense, it represents a hollowed-out tree trunk or a stone structure placed near a well, manually filled with water to hydrate livestock.
• Wooden trough — An archaic or regional term used in certain isolated rural communities to denote a type of wooden vessel or a small trough used in the household for washing food or clothes. In other Transylvanian dialectal contexts, the word can be a rare phonetic variant for 'hălău', denoting a wooden chute through which water flows to a mill or a small pond set up for watering animals.
• Trough-maker — A traditional folk woodcrafter or artisan specialized in the manual carving, manufacturing, and hollowing of wooden troughs, tubs, basins, or spoons from soft tree trunks (poplar, willow, linden); a spoon-maker. In the past, these craftsmen formed mobile rural communities or guilds selling their utilitarian wooden items at seasonal fairs.
• Troughed — Having a hollowed-out, deepened, or concave shape, similar to the structure of a trough or a riverbed; provided with a visible channel. In geography and geomorphology, the term describes a valley, a canal, or a relief segment shaped by continuous fluvial erosion. In an archaic sense, it can also refer to a log or wooden object already hollowed out by a craftsman.
• Riverbed — The part of a valley through which a river flows, permanently or temporarily; a large wooden or metal trough used in households for washing clothes, kneading dough, or feeding animals. It represents an elongated structural depression, natural or artificial, bordered by side walls.
• Trough maker — A craftsman specialized in carving and manufacturing wooden troughs, bowls, or other large wooden vessels used in traditional households; a person who sold these wooden items. This traditional rural occupation typically utilized softwoods, such as willow or poplar.
• Small trough — Diminutive for albie; a small-sized trough or wooden bowl used in households; a small natural depression or narrow riverbed of a brook or mountain river.
• Bleak fish — A popular or diminutive name given to the small freshwater fish known as the bleak or minnow, characterized by shiny silvery scales and a small size; a small wooden vessel resembling a tiny trough used in households.
• Small trough — A common diminutive for albie; a small-sized trough or basin, usually made of carved wood or plastic, used in rural households for washing delicate clothes, kneading small amounts of dough, or bathing infants.
• Riverbed — A regional form or obsolete phonetic variant of the noun 'albie'; an elongated hollow carved into a tree trunk used as a trough, tub, or wooden bowl; the natural bed or course of a running water. In the popular dialects of certain mountainous zones, the term describes the carved wooden vessel used in the household for kneading bread or washing clothes.
• Wooden trough — A wooden tool or container used in archaic households; in certain regions, the term designates a hollowed tree trunk (trough, chute) or a rudimentary trap. Figuratively and locally, it can characterize a dull, slow-moving, clumsy person, or someone lacking mental agility.