Definitions for manger

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manger man·ger

Spelling: [meyn-jer]

IPA: /ˈmeɪn dʒər/

Manger is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in manger (aegmnr).

Definitions for manger

noun

1. a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.
2. 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.
3. Praesepe.

Origin of manger

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French maingeure, derivative of mangier to eat Latin mandūcāre to chew, eat. See manducate

Examples for manger

The manger was empty, as it had been the year before; but the home seemed empty too.

But finally he returned with an ample armful and filled up the manger.

We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger.

“Good day, you cow at the manger,” said the Cat to Daisy the cow.

I was just making for the door of the salle--manger when the hostess overtook me.

Dogs in the manger, I call you; won't work yourselves, and won't let any one else.'

If there's any one thing in the universe I never had you figured for, it's a dog in the manger.

I must be a dog in the manger, because I don't like the idea of its being either.

It's being a dog in the manger, because he doesn't care for it himself.

What sort of a yellow dog in the manger would he be if he did not?