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manger
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man·ger       [meyn-jer] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.
2.Nautical.
a.a space at the bow of a ship, having a partition for confining water entering at the hawseholes until it can be drained.
b.a sunken bottom in a chain locker, covered by a grating and used to collect water from the anchor chain.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < MF maingeure, deriv. of mangier to eat < L mandūcāre to chew, eat. See manducate]
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Man·ger       [meyn-jer] Pronunciation Key
–noun Astronomy.
Praesepe.
[Origin: 1545–55; as trans. of L praesépe]
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man·ger       (mān'jər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A trough or an open box in which feed for livestock is placed.


[Middle English, from Old French mangeoire, from mangier, to eat, from Latin mandūcāre, from mandūcō, glutton, from mandere, to chew.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
manger 
c.1315, from O.Fr. mangeure (Fr. mangeoire), from mangier "to eat" (see mange) + -oire, common suffix for implements and receptacles.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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manger

noun
a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed 

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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This

manger

see dog in the manger.


The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Manger

Man"ger\, n. [F. mangeoire, fr. manger to eat, fr. L. manducare, fr. mandere to chew. Cf. Mandible, Manducate.]

1. A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

2. (Naut.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Manger

(Luke 2:7, 12, 16), the name (Gr. phatne, rendered "stall" in Luke 13:15) given to the place where the infant Redeemer was laid. It seems to have been a stall or crib for feeding cattle. Stables and mangers in our modern sense were in ancient times unknown in the East. The word here properly denotes "the ledge or projection in the end of the room used as a stall on which the hay or other food of the animals of travellers was placed." (See INN.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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