- a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.
- Nautical.
- a space at the bow of a ship, having a partition for confining water entering at the hawseholes until it can be drained.
- a sunken bottom in a chain locker, covered by a grating and used to collect water from the anchor chain.
- a trough or box in a stable, barn, etc, from which horses or cattle feed
- a basin-like construction in the bows of a vessel for catching water draining from an anchor rode or coming in through the hawseholes