Milk vessel

(Bot.) a special cell in the inner bark of a plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is contained. See Latex.

See also: Milk

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The milk vessel is tilted to access practically every last drop of cold milk, avoiding waste.
The word "destroyed" is scrawled across several pages, each for different reasons, but possibly through lack of awareness of hygiene and the secondhand plant - former milk vessels - being unable to cope with what was being asked of it.
Extensive pipework modifications were required to connect cooling water onto the refurbished raw milk and existing finished milk vessels, together with re-wiring of these items.