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noun

manger n.

A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat. "And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."

(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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manger" Quotes from Famous Books

... her to her apartments. They consisted of a salle-a-manger, three delightful bedrooms, a boudoir, and a magnificent drawing-room, fifty feet long, with two fireplaces, and a bay-window thirty feet wide, filled with ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various

... manger where He lay While the angel hosts adore Him; Hail the Cross, for man that day Raised, that Jesu might ...

— Hymns from the Greek Office Books - Together with Centos and Suggestions • John Brownlie

... but our good fortune, that his time and talents have been devoted to advancing the Whig party, while those who oppose him were taxing costs and filing demurrers. The extreme Webster men in New York have formed a combination against Willis. It is the dog in the manger, too, for no man from New York ...

— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

... through France till the chills and rains of autumn rendered our vagabondage less merry. The end of October found us fulfilling a week's engagement at a brasserie on the outskirts of Tours. Two rooms over a stable and a manger in an empty stall below were assigned to us; and every night we crept to our resting places wearied to ...

— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke

... Himself said about Himself that He came down from heaven, and that though He did, even whilst He wore the likeness of the flesh, and was one of us, He was 'the Son of Man which is in Heaven,' when He lay in the manger, when He worked at the carpenter's bench in Nazareth, when He walked with weary feet those blessed acres, when He hung, for our advantage, on the bitter Cross. And that was no incommunicable property of His mysterious nature, but it was the typical example of what it is possible for manhood ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

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