This liquid drips through into troughs from which it is carried to evaporators where the water portion of the sap is eliminated and the juice left; you would be surprised if you were to see this liquid.
Here great bags or casks of raw sugar were being opened, and their contents emptied into wooden troughs preparatory to cleansing and refining.
It should be sifted to separate the fine meal, as the pigeons will not eat the meal and if it is left in the food troughs it will sour and produce bowel trouble in the birds, old and young.
If the troughs are emptied in a way that shows the birds have not plenty to eat, add a little to the quantity given them.
Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
It took three days' hard work to saw the planks and make the cradle, and troughs sufficiently long to lead the water down into it from the stream higher up.
It was no light task to lift these troughs full of sap and empty the sap into buckets, but we did it successfully, and afterward built fires and boiled it down.
Boys were carrying buckets of water from a well in the court-yard to the troughs for the cattle and horses, and the men-at-arms were cleaning their armour and polishing their steel caps.
Large stone troughs placed in the court-yard were filled with water, and before nightfall everything was in readiness.
A man usually stayed at these points to see that the ponds and troughs were kept in shape for cattle to water.
Here and there poked windmills that supplied the troughs and ponds with water.
The Yankee took the adze from his hand before he could speak, and set about hollowing troughs very rapidly.
Mr. Bunting speedily tired of manufacturing the basswood troughs alone, and sloped over to the group who were raising the walls of the shanty.
I see yer makin' troughs for the sap,' observed Zack.
This shanty of yours is to be roofed with a double layer of troughslaid hollow to hollow; and we choose basswood because it is the easiest split and scooped.
And he went on with his troughs and spouts until near sundown, when he and Arthur went to look at the Indian encampment, and see what progress was being made there.
Shingle is another sort of roofing, and that must be on your house; but troughs are best for the shanty.
Put this into their troughs where they feed, that they may be always eating of it.
Which put into the troughs before them, renewing it thrice a day, morning, noon and evening; making their troughs very clean every time, and keeping their Coops always very clean and sweet.
Feed them thus six days; the seventh give them nothing in their troughs but powder of brick searced, which scowreth and cleanseth them much, and makes their flesh exceeding white.
These trees had been tapped and elderwood spiles were placed in the taps where the water dripped to the wooden troughs below.
We carried this water to the big poplar troughs which were about 10 feet long and 3 feet high.
In thesetroughs the depth is seldom much less than 3000 fathoms, and this is exceeded in a series of patches to which Murray has given the name of "Deeps.
On both sides of the central ridge deep troughsextend southwards from the Telegraph plateau to the Southern Ocean, the deep water coming close to the land all the way down on both sides.
It is enclosed to a height of six and-one-half feet by a wall of large stones joined with cement, nine and one-quarter feet in breadth, and in front of it there are two stone troughs for watering cattle.
In the Karluk hatchery the troughs never leak, owing to this superior construction; and it is said that the importance of this advantage cannot be overestimated.
The troughs are placed longitudinally, one on each side of the vessel; or one may be placed between two vessels having one deck.
One of these improvements consists in directing currents of air, or other gaseous fluids, through inverted troughs or channels, for the propulsion of boats and barges in the conveyance of goods and passengers.
At Hildesheim, too, and the neighbouring villages fires used to blaze on all the heights on Easter Eve; and embers taken from the bonfires were dipped in the cattle troughs to benefit the beasts and were kept in the houses to avert lightning.
Meantime the mother, assisted by the women of the neighbourhood, has brewed a large quantity of the native intoxicant called chicha, and poured it into wooden troughs and palm leaves.
Shallow troughs are set in front of the Apiaries, which are filled, about two inches deep, with finely ground, dry, unbolted rye meal.
Undisturbed by the camels they ranged in search of green food, and drank of the water remaining in the puddled troughs as though indifferent to the proximity of the sleeping men.
He seemed to be searching, ever searching, up the hills and down the hollows, through the troughs and on the breastlands, in the shadow and the sunlight, seeking for some precious loss.
Along the lower ends of the troughs a small channel is dug to carry off the water.
The upper ends of all these troughs (here called canoes) communicate with the canal, and are so formed that water is admitted into them between two planks that are about an inch separate.
Down these troughs is conveyed the water containing the oxide of iron and the lighter particles of gold; the latter substance precipitating in its course is entangled by the hair.
And she saw some of them at troughs, for which the others seemed to be searching, and those at the troughs were taking something from these receptacles and apparently putting it in a hole where their necks should have been.
Early in the morning John was up, hard at work, making troughsfor the sap.
I felt a little curious about this far-famed maple sugar, and asked a thousand questions about the use to which the troughs were to be applied; how the trees were to be tapped, the sugar made, and if it were really good when made?
That is to say, he could shovel up the dried sand that had washed down to the ravine through the troughs and dash it against an upright wire screen to free it from pebbles and prepare it for working over.
Streams of dirty water flowed always from the pans and were carried off in broad wooden troughs to the ravine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "troughs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
