Usually means: Container for holding drinking water.
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noun:  (rail transport, UK) a long trough placed between the rails in a railway track, which enabled a steam locomotive to replenish its water supply without stopping by lowering a scoop. They were removed at the end of steam train operation.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, trough: a watering trough for livestock.

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