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milk-cow Now dial.
= milch-cow 1, 2.
1535Coverdale 1 Sam. vi. 7 Two mylke kyne vpon y⊇ which there neuer came yock. 1606Choice, Chance, etc. (1881) 48 What a spight it was to see..a milk-cowe to be stung by a hedgehog. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xxv. 315 Whether our East-india Company got or lost by that War, I know not..; but this I know, that the Chief lost a good Milk Cow. 1794W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberld. I. 210 note, Several farmers keep about twenty milk cows. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xiii. i. (1872) V. 5 Hanover was the Britannic Majesty's beloved son; and the British Empire his opulent milk-cow. |