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milcher - cattle that are reared for their milk

dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milk cow, milker

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

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Between the post were ranged the milchers, each exhibiting herself at the present moment to a whimsical eye in the rear as a circle on two stalks, down the centre of which a switch moved pendulum-wise; while the sun, lowering itself behind this patient row, threw their shadows accurately inwards upon the wall.

Those that would stand still of their own will were milked in the middle of the yard, where many of such better behaved ones stood waiting now--all prime milchers, such as were seldom seen out of this valley, and not always within it; nourished by the succulent feed which the water-meads supplied at this prime season of the year.

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For many Roma, the collapse of the socialist system, according to Milcher and Fisher (2011), has led to an erosion of security in jobs, housing and other services, and in the absence of viable economic opportunities to increasing poverty, which can be confirmed by the example of Serbia (Todorovic 2011).

Belgrade slums--life or survival on the margins of Serbian society?

(42) Susanne Milcher ve Ben Slay, "The Economics of the 'European Neighbourhood Policy': An Initial Assessment", Studies & Analyses, No.291, 2005, s.5.

The problematic fields in European neighborhood policy: human security and neighborhood relations/Avrupa komsuluk politikasinda sorunlu alanlar: insan guvenligi ve komsuluk iliskisi

On the limitations to the prospect of the EU opening up its market to its neighbours in the areas where they are most able to compete (which often are the sensitive areas where the EU has lost its competitive advantage) see Milcher, Slay (2005).

The European Union and its neighbours: "everything but institutions"?

The third article by Milcher (2006) uses multivariate analysis to determine the impact of different household characteristics on poverty.

Development opportunities for the Roma in Central and southeast Europe--impediments and challenges

Eye also has a drama set at Maryland's Bethesda Naval Centre, while John August and Jordan Milcher are developing the "Three Kings"-esque "OPS."

New net mantra: think big: next fall's pilots still copying hits--but at least they're bold hits