The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TROUGH
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More clues leading to the result TROUGH
- Channel in easternmost part of Solent getting turbulent
- Low point of river, difficult to cross
- Nothing right about disgusting feeder
- River in hard to cut channel
- Difficult having little King in manger
- Rear of bowsprit attached to crude vessel
- Depression ought to be remedied around end of year!
- Roger, protected by criminal, arrives at low point
- Area of low pressure in the Channel?
- Difficult locking in right channel
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What does TROUGH mean?
TROUGH noun- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.