Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MAN-GER, n. [Fr. mangeoire, from manger, to eat, L. mando.]

1. A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed.
2. In ships of war, a space across the deck, within the hawse-holes, separated from the after part of the deck, to prevent the water which enters the hawse-holes from running over the deck.