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Definition of Milkers
1. milker [n] - See also: milker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Milkers
Literary usage of Milkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ingleside Rhaims: Verses in the Dialect of Burns by Jeremiah Eames Rankin (1887)
"Efter the milkers she gaed. Efter the milkers she wrang strayed afar; Dooh gaed
the sun, out-glinted a star ; Out-glinted a ..."
2. The Cultivator: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to Agriculture by New York State Agricultural Society (1852)
"His heifers commonly make good milkers. I own a cow of his get, that in good feed
has given 70 l'os.. (35 qts.) of milk per day. ..."
3. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1852)
"... way I find my cattle improve much faster than boned and cow-legged ; but were
good milkers, and esteemed for the dairy. ..."
4. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha by Gaetano Casati (1891)
"... a shepherd"—Simulated piety and manifest avarice—His sons brought up by
shepherds—No profane eye is to rest on the king's cows—The milkers— Reception at ..."
5. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon (1874)
"The moving power is imparted to the machines by hand, by a dog running in suitable
gear, or other prime mover. The milkers are worked by pumps ..."
6. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1852)
"But very few milkers, however, can milk in this way; they more generally press
the teats with the whole hand and finish off by stripping with the thumb and ..."
7. The New Agriculture: A Popular Outline of the Changes which are by T[homas] Byard Collins (1906)
"milkers IN UNIFORM. biotic relation with their roots, of transforming the nitrogen
of the air into available plant food and, after the crop is gathered, ..."
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