milkery
milkery noun: a place where animals are milked.
Noun
milkery (plural milkeries)
- A place where animals are milked.
- But a cow confined on ship-board, in the stable of a private citizen, or in the narrow stenchy stalls of the milkeries which supply cities, does not live a natural life, and can not by any possibility give natural, healthful milk; […]1862, “Health Track, No. 82. Milk—Its Uses.”, in W[illiam] W[hitty] Hall, editor, Hall’s Journal of Health, volume IX, New York, N.Y.: […] the Editor, […], and […] Trubner & Company, […], London
- Now contrast this with the untidy manner in which many farmers allow their milkers to milk the cows—hair unbrushed, full of husks and straws, perhaps, just as they come from loading hay or threshing grain; […] When we think of the condition of the hands and clothes of those who “go to the milkery”...1879 October 4, Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher [i.e., Eunice White Beecher], “Milk and Butter”, in Harper’s Bazar […], volume XII, number 40, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 630...
- Synonyms:
- dairy, dairy farm
- A place where milk is stored and it or dairy products are processed or sold.
- The milk is cooled to a temperature of 5 degs. C. as soon as it is drawn, and must be kept cool until it is delivered at the milkery in Copenhagen, no milk being accepted if its temperature is over 10 degs.1899 April 28, “Milk Production on the Continent”, in Natal Department of Agriculture and Mines, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume II, number 3, Pietermaritzburg, Natal: William...
- The proprietors of the neighbourhood have a milkery in the town four miles away; part is sold as milk—2d. a litre retail, 1¼d. wholesale—part is made into butter, and if there is skim-milk unsold it comes back for the pigs.1900, G[eorge] W[arrington] Steevens, “A Country Gentleman”, in Vernon Blackburn, editor, Glimpses of Three Nations, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, pages 213–214
Examples of milkery in a sentence
- There were eight cows in the milkery where we went—a room thirty-five feet deep by sixteen wide.1892, Lee Meriwether, Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 60:
- Women’s clubs meet daily at the dairy and get an air plug as an inducement to gather at the milkery.1938 May 20, Radio Daily, volume 4, New York, N.Y.: Radio Daily Corp., →OCLC, page 8, column 1:
- […] what more nutritious additive than the flesh of dead fems and of fem-cubs who did not survive the milkery?1974, Suzy McKee Charnas, The Slave and the Free: Walk to the End of the World, Motherlines, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates...
- One houses the creamery. […] In another barn is the milkery and yet in another right next to it are the newly born lambs.2010, Susan Meisel, Nathalie Sann, “The Hudson Valley”, in Fresh from the Farm: Great Local Foods from New York State […], New York, N.Y....
Synonyms of milkery
Forms of milkery
| plural | milkeries |
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Origin of milkery
From milk + -ery. Compare French laiterie and German Molkerei.
Questions about milkery
- What does milkery mean?
- Milkery means a place where animals are milked.
- How do you use milkery in a sentence?
- There were eight cows in the milkery where we went—a room thirty-five feet deep by sixteen wide.
- What part of speech is milkery?
- Milkery is a noun.
- What is the plural of milkery?
- The plural of milkery is milkeries.
Words near milkery in the dictionary
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