milker

milk  (mlk)

n.

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.

1.

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.

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

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milker n.

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milker [ˈmɪlkə]

n

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

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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