Category:Manger

Man"ger, n. Etym: [F. mangeoire, fr. manger to eat, fr. L. manducare, fr. mandere to chew. Cf. Mandible, Manducate.]

1. A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Manger - (Luke 2:7, Luke 2:12, Luke 2:16), the name (Gr. phatne, rendered "stall" in Luke 13:15) given to the place where the Infant Redeemer was laid. It seems to have been a stall or crib for feeding cattle. Stables and mangers in our modern sense were in ancient times unknown in the East. The word here properly denotes "the ledge or projection in the end of the room used as a stall on which the hayor other food of the animals of travelers was placed." (See INN.)