sloping trough

Questions about sloping trough

What does sloping trough mean?

sloping trough means "sloping channel through which things can descend".

What is another word for sloping trough?

Close synonyms include chute, slide, slideway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sloping trough a common word?

sloping trough is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.