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Definition of Overmilking
1. overmilk [v] - See also: overmilk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmilking
Literary usage of Overmilking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore, (chiefly Lancashire and the North by Charles Hardwick (1872)
"One Warwick legend too asserts that the cow had been driven mad by the overmilking
of a witch. Another says that the cow was slain by Guy during a season of ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1898)
"It had also been claimed that tuberculosis in cows was largely due to overmilking,
and it had been recommended that the cows be allowed to go dry for the ..."
3. Washington, Outside and Inside: A Picture and a Narrative of the Origin by George Alfred Townsend (1874)
"... sullen by overmilking ; boys, babies, friendless dogs, and negro women "
toting " great bundles on their heads, no more fence, the smell of apparent ..."
4. Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry for by United States Bureau of Animal Industry (1886)
"... is exposed to any fresh exciting cause, such as debility from overmilking,
parturition, extremes of heat and cold, over exertion or impure atmosphere. ..."
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