a shallow dishlike vessel filled with a liquid, usually water, and used in collecting gases by displacement of liquid from a filled jar held with its open end under the surface of the liquid
pneumatic trough in American English
noun
Chemistry
a trough filled with liquid, esp. water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement
Word origin
[1820–30]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blouse, exogenous, insider, myth, tetrapod