milker

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milk

(mĭlk)

1. A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young.

2. The milk of cows, goats, or other animals, used as food by humans.

3. Any of various potable liquids resembling milk, such as coconut milk or soymilk.

4. A liquid resembling milk in consistency, such as milkweed sap or milk of magnesia.

v. milked, milk·ing, milks

v.tr.

a. To draw milk from the teat or udder of (a female mammal).

b. To draw or extract a liquid from: milked the stem for its last drops of sap.

2. To press out, drain off, or remove (a liquid): milk venom from a snake.

3. Informal

a. To draw out or extract something from: milked the witness for information.

b. To obtain money or benefits from, in order to achieve personal gain; exploit: "The dictator and his cronies had milked their country of somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion" (Russell Watson).

c. To obtain the greatest possible advantage from (a situation).

d. To get the greatest effect from (a line or scene in a play, for example).

v.intr.

1. To yield or supply milk.

2. To draw milk from a female mammal.

Idiom:

milk it

To take advantage of the help or kindness of others, as when one acts as if one still needs help after recovering from an illness.

[Middle English, from Old English milc; see melg- in Indo-European roots.]

milk′er n.

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milker

(ˈmɪlkə)

1. (Agriculture) a cow, goat, etc, that yields milk, esp of a specified quality or amount: a poor milker.

2. (Agriculture) a person who milks

3. (Agriculture) another name for milking machine

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Noun

milker - cattle that are reared for their milk

dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milcher, milk cow

Bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen - domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"

Ayrshire - hardy breed of dairy cattle from Ayr, Scotland

Brown Swiss - large hardy brown breed of dairy cattle from Switzerland

Jersey - a breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey

milking shorthorn - breed evolved from shorthorn beef cattle

Friesian, Holstein, Holstein-Friesian - a breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland

Guernsey - breed of dairy cattle from the island of Guernsey

Translations

Melker Melkerin

mungitore mungitrice vacca che d... molto latte

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One of these was a sturdy middle-aged man--whose long white "pinner" was somewhat finer and cleaner than the wraps of the others, and whose jacket underneath had a presentable marketing aspect--the master-dairyman, of whom she was in quest, his double character as a working milker and butter maker here during six days, and on the seventh as a man in shining broad-cloth in his family pew at church, being so marked as to have inspired a rhyme-

A reply, in the shape of "Why?" came as it were out of the belly of a dun cow in the stalls; it had been spoken by a milker behind the animal, whom she had not hitherto perceived.

She saw nothing at supper-time of the superior milker who had commented on the story, and asked no questions about him, the remainder of the evening being occupied in arranging her place in the bed-chamber.

The male milkers, with hat-brims turned down, resting flat on their foreheads and gazing on the ground, did not observe her.

The milkers formed quite a little battalion of men and maids, the men operating on the hard-teated animals, the maids on the kindlier natures.

The only movements were those of the milkers' hands up and down, and the swing of the cows' tails.

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"Those two beautiful sonnets that you transmuted into the cow that was accounted the worst milker in the township."

I have here a nice beautiful new cow, the best milker in California."

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Hardly ever did he pass through his barn without paying homage to his own progressiveness and oozing approval of the mechanical milker, driven by his own electrical dynamo, the James Way stanchions with electric lights above, the individual drinking fountains at the head of each cow, the cork-brick floors, the scrupulously white-washed walls, and the absence of odor, with the one exception of sweet, fermented silage.

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The restaurant bakers and the bakery wagon drivers struck, followed by the milkers, milk drivers, and chicken pickers.

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27 Porters 3 Coarse Washers and Ironers 44 Mules 1 Fine ditto 44 Muleteers 7 Cows 2 Milkers

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They were shown over the cattery, the piggery, the milkers, and the kennelry, as Mrs.