A wooden trough or tub in which to knead dough.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Miller’s T., 362. Go gete vs faste in to this In A knedyng trogh.

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1411.  Nottingham Rec., II. 86. j. knedyngtrow.

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1611.  Bible, Exod. xii. 34. The people tooke their dough before it was leauened, their kneading troughes beeing bound vp in their clothes vpon their shoulders.

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1894.  Daily News, 18 Dec., 5/4. He had just been released on a long furlough from military service, and had returned to the kneading trough.

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