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milk floats

milk floats is the plural of milk float.

Meaning of milk float

Noun

milk float (plural milk floats)

  1. An electric accumulator battery-driven vehicle (formerly also horse-drawn), designed for the house-to-house delivery of fresh milk; common in Europe, especially the United Kingdom.
    • Further clues are provided by milk-floats bearing the legend 'Lord Rayleigh's Dairies: A Family Business', and a number of signs indicating the whereabouts of various departments of Lord Rayleigh's Farms.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 375, about Terling
    Synonyms:
    dairy van, float

Questions about milk floats

What is milk floats the plural of?
Milk floats is the plural of milk float.

Words near milk floats in the dictionary

  1. milk fiber
  2. milk fibers
  3. milk fibre
  4. milk fibres
  5. milk float
  6. milk floats
  7. milk food
  8. milk foods
  9. milk fruit
  10. milk fruits
  11. milk glass

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