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cowkeepers

cowkeepers is the plural of cowkeeper.

Meaning of cowkeeper

Noun

cowkeeper (plural cowkeepers)

  1. (especially Mauritius) A smallholder who keeps one or several milk cows to fulfill household needs and earn some sales but is not a dairyer in the sense of running a herd of dozens or hundreds.
    • Utilisation of sugarcane tops / Although some cane tops have always been used as a roughage feed, particularly in the past by smallholder cowkeepers, they are probably the most underutilised of all sugarcane by-products. Options for the use of cane tops are feeding as fresh material; ensiling fresh...1982, Booker Agriculture International Limited, Mauritius Sugarcane By-products Study: Main Report, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, page 17
  2. (archaic) A cowherd; a cowman; a dairyer.

Questions about cowkeepers

What is cowkeepers the plural of?
Cowkeepers is the plural of cowkeeper.

Words near cowkeepers in the dictionary

  1. cowish
  2. cowitch
  3. cowives
  4. cowjuice
  5. cowkeeper
  6. cowkeepers
  7. cowkid
  8. cowkids
  9. cowkind
  10. cowkini
  11. cowl

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