troughing

USTRAWF-ing/ˈtɹɔfɪŋ/UKTROF-ing/ˈtɹɒfɪŋ/

Noun pluraltroughings

2 meanings of troughing

1
eating greedilyverb
Present participle and gerund of trough.
Analysts believe earnings are troughing this quarter and should recover next year.
After troughing in the spring, the stock climbed steadily through the fall.
Note
Animals jostling at a feeding trough are the picture behind it, so the word judges as it describes: saying someone is troughing criticizes their manners rather than simply reporting that they are eating. It sits naturally with at or over the food (troughing at the buffet, troughing over his noodles) and keeps that scornful edge as a gerund (stop troughing).
2
cable channelsnouncountable or uncountable
A connected set of troughs, such as the channels laid to carry and protect cables.
The contractor installed troughing for the signaling cables along the new rail line.
The farm's troughing carries water from the well to every pasture.
Note
Like piping and tubing, it can work as a mass noun for lengths of the stuff: a contractor lays troughing for signaling cables along a rail line, with no article and no plural. Counted, it names separate systems, so one farm's troughing and two sites' troughings are both correct.

troughing is a form of trough

trough, verb: To eat in a crude, ill-mannered way, as though feeding from a trough. Full entry

Forms: troughtroughs he/she/ittroughing -ing formtroughed past tense, past participle
Spelling: trough → troughing: add -ing

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