milker

milk (m

lk)

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. A liquid, such as coconut milk, milkweed sap, plant latex, or various medical emulsions, that is similar to milk in appearance.

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 by or as if by milking: milk venom from a snake.

3. Informal

a. To draw out or extract something from, as if by milking: 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).

v.intr.

1. To yield or supply milk.

2. To draw milk from a female mammal.

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

milker n.

milker [ˈmɪlkə]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a cow, goat, etc., that yields milk, esp of a specified quality or amount a poor milker

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a person who milks

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / 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

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Ayrshire Bos taurus Brown Swiss cattle cows dairy cattle dairy cow Friesian Guernsey Holstein Holstein-Friesian Jersey kine milch cow milcher milk cow milking shorthorn oxen share-milker	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- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context Those two beautiful sonnets that you transmuted into the cow that was accounted the worst milker in the township. Love of Life And Other Stories by London, Jack View in context 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. Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context	milk punch Milk River milk round milk run milk shake milk sickness milk snake milk stout milk sugar milk thistle Milk thrush milk toast milk tooth Milk tree Milk vessel milk vetch milk wagon milk whey milk-and-water Milk-livered milk-sick milk-vetch milk-white milkcap Milken milker milkfish Milkful Milkily milkiness milking milking machine milking parlour milking shed milking shorthorn milking stool milkless milklike milkmaid milkman milko milkshake milksop milksopism milktoast milkwagon milkweed milkweed butterfly milkweed family milkwort milkwort family	Milk-man Milk-men Milk-parsley Milk-Phosphate Buffered Saline milk-sick milk-vetch milk-vetch milk-vetch milk-white Milk-Yellow Maize Porridge Milka milkcap MILKDO milked milked milked milked milked Milken Milken Community High School Milken Educator Virtual Workspace Milken Family Foundation Milken Festival for Youth Milken Institute Milken Institute Review Milken, Michael Milken, Michael Milken, Michael R. Milken, Michael R. Milken, Michael Robert milker milker's n milker's n milker's n milker's n's milker's n's milker's n's milker's node Milker's Node Virus milker's nodule milker's nodules milker's nodules milker's nodules Milker’s Nodes milkers Milkfat Milkfat Milkfat milkfish milkfish milkfish milkfishes milkfishes Milkfloat Milkfloat Milkful milkier milkier milkiest milkiest Milkily

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milch cow
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milk cow
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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-

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

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

Love of Life And Other Stories by London, Jack View in context

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.

Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context

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