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English Dictionary: Manger by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
manger
n
  1. a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
    Synonym(s): manger, trough
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   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}.)
     
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