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milk cans

milk cans is the plural of milk can.

Meaning of milk can

Noun

milk can (plural milk cans)

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of milk churn.
    • Electrification helped farmers, but in addition, the farm routine was greatly simplified because milk itself became the desired commodity instead of cream and butter. Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing. The...2011, Cameron Clifford, Farms, Flatlanders, and Fords: A Story of People and Place in Rural Vermont 1890-2010
    Synonyms:
    milk churn
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see milk, can: any can used for milk in any way.

Questions about milk cans

What is milk cans the plural of?
Milk cans is the plural of milk can.

Words near milk cans in the dictionary

  1. milk brother
  2. milk brothers
  3. milk camel
  4. milk camels
  5. milk can
  6. milk cans
  7. milk cap
  8. milk caps
  9. milk card
  10. milk cards
  11. milk carton

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