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Definition of Milters
1. milter [n] - See also: milter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Milters
Literary usage of Milters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"... 2586, provides that eight hours shall constitute a day's labor for all "coal
milters and laborers," etc. Section 2587 declares that the word "day," in ..."
2. The Angler's Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland by Thomas Tod Stoddart (1847)
"... and milters ? The average size they exhibit at first entering the river, ...
have either been early impregnated by the few milters then in the river, ..."
3. A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature: As Founded Upon a Plan of by Richard Bradley (1739)
"... or Log, whereby the Fifh may hang her Spawn, and put into it either one Spawner
and two milters, or two Spawners and three or four milters; ..."
4. An Angler's Paradise and how to Obtain it by J. J. Armistead (1898)
"In the old days there was often a difficulty in getting milters, and even to the
present time collectors of ova from wild fish have often to be content with ..."
5. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1883)
"He says: "According to Dub's method, I invariably make the proportion of the
stock in each spawning pond one spawner to two milters, which is sufficient to ..."
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