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Definition of Milk float

1. Noun. A van (typically powered by electricity) with an open side that is used to deliver milk to houses.

Definition of Milk float

1. Noun. An electric accumulator battery driven vehicle, designed for the house to house delivery of fresh milk. Common in Europe, especially UK. ¹

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Literary usage of Milk float

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. What the Judge Saw: Being Twenty-five Years in Manchester by One who Has Done it by Edward Abbott Parry (1912)
"The case was about a milk float and a lurry. I was for the lurry, and we won, mainly, as far as I remember, because an imaginative office boy of Anderton's ..."

2. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1872)
"At the opening of the present year, in an address before the American Dairymen's Association on the subject of tainted milk, float-ing curds, &c., ..."

3. Wilson's Photographics: A Series of Lessons, Accompanied by Notes, on All by Edward Livingston Wilson (1881)
"The albumen should be well cut before adding it to the milk. Float or swab the paper with the salting for two minutes. The sensitizing solution is, viz. ..."

4. Dairying by Correspondence College of Agriculture, Edward Holyoke Farrington (1910)
"11. The separator bowl should revolve in the same direction as the hands of a watch. 12. Keep the milk float in supply pan when skimming. ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"Fo'ks are a* wise ahmt the hand, and sae will ye be." ' 'Complished gentleman ! 'Com- plished kirn-milk, float-whey, ..."

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