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▪ I. milking, vbl. n.|ˈmɪlkɪŋ|
[f. milk v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb milk.
1. The drawing of milk from the udders of cows or other animals.
c1440Promp. Parv. 477/1 Stoppe, vessel for mylkynge,..multra. c1574–5G. Harvey Lett.-bk. (Camden) 144 P. watchd her going a milking a mile from y⊇ towne. 1834Youatt Cattle iii. 18 Their qualities may be referred to three points; their working, fattening, and milking. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 24 Milking was over when we returned to the châlet.
2. concr. The quantity of milk drawn from a cow or from a dairy at one time or operation.
1538Elyot Dict., Mulctra, the mylkyng, the payle, wherinto it is milked. 1611Cotgr., Mousson, a Cowes..milking; as much as she yeelds at a milking. 1850J. Struthers Life Poet. Wks. I. p. xxix, The whole milking went to the floor.
3. techn. The steeping of cloth in sour milk during the bleaching process.
1837Whittock, etc. Bk. Trades (1842) 31 The next process is called the milking, or the souring.
4. attrib., as milking cow, milking cramp, milking gear, milking machine, milking pail, milking pot, milking-shed, milking side, † milking skeel, milking stool, milking time, milking trade, milking tube, milking yard, milking-yoke; milking bail = bail n.3 5; milking-loan dial. (see quot.); milking-parlour, a shed specially equipped for milking cows; milking shorthorn, a type of shorthorn developed specially for producing milk.
1890W. H. S. Roberts Hist. Oamaru 54 A stockyard and *milking-bail had also been erected.
1784Twamley Dairying 97 The people..who buy Cows, always make a large bag in a *Milking Cow their first object.
1890Syd. Soc. Lex., *Milking-cramp.
1891T. Hardy Tess xvii. (1892) 145 Without the *milking-gear nobody could have guessed what he was.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 824 The shepherd or cattle-man taking it as a part of his duty to bring them to a certain spot of the field to be milked, and which is usually named the *milking loan.
1850New England Farmer II. 282 Gutta percha patent *milking machines are in use on Long Island. 1891Daily News 14 Oct. 2/6 A good deal of curiosity was attracted..by Mr. J. Gray's ‘milking machine’. 1945‘G. Orwell’ Animal Farm v. 37 A windmill, which could..supply the farm with electrical power..and would also run..an electric milking machine. 1974‘E. Lathen’ Sweet & Low xiii. 131 Shots of..the dairies,..complete with milking machines.
1548Elyot Dict., Mulctrale, a *mylkyng payle. 1897Crockett Lads' Love xvi, The white streams hissed..into the milking pails.
1946Agric. Overseas Rep. I. 8 The *milking parlour arrangement is only at the experimental stage. 1952Blackw. Mag. Feb. 97/1 A thoroughly sound, commonsense opinion on..a milking-parlour. 1972Country Life 2 Nov. Suppl. 3 The Farm buildings include 2 milking parlours, cubicles for 120, stock yards.
1511MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For a new *mylkyng pot jd. ob.
a1930‘H. Stone’ in Murdoch & Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 125 It was a silent *milking shed that evening. 1937Discovery July 214/2 The rear parts serve as tool and store sheds, the front as byre and milking-shed. 1970Kenya Farmer Feb. 36/1 ‘Oh Gawd!’ said Fred the farmer as he came stomping up the verandah steps, his boots looking more as if he had walked from Timboroa than from the milking sheds two hundred yards away.
1910Encycl. Brit. V. 539/2 The non-pedigree *milking Shorthorn of the north of England is an excellent cow. 1957Milking Shorthorn [see dairy shorthorn s.v. dairy n. 4].
1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 456 There is one side of a cow which is usually called the *milking side.
1577Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 421 In The Kitchinge And Larder House..iiij *milken skeales, and one wassinge toobe.
1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. 103 Her little brother following with the *milking-stool.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 246 Is there not *milking-time?
1725Pope Odyss. ix. 263 Full pails, and vessels of the *milking trade.
1881J. P. Sheldon Dairy Farm. 58/1 A silver ‘syphon’ or ‘*milking-tube’.
1888W. Senior Near & Far 281 The magpie fluted sweetly from the three gum-trees by the *milking-yard.
1910J. Masefield Ballads & Poems 42 Sleepy men bear *milking-yokes Slowly towards the cattle-byre.
Add:[1.] b. fig. The manipulation of funds for (esp. unscrupulous or illicit) financial gain; more loosely, exploitation of resources.
1936F. Lundberg Imperial Hearst x. 326 Hearst's sons were on the payroll for sums in excess of the average paid the top executives... This is what is known in Wall Street as ‘milking’. 1975Times 5 Aug. 15/2 Company inspectors..are particularly examining what they describe as ‘the milking’ of Court Line's building interests to support other activities. 1994Vancouver Sun 26 Mar. b1/2 Yann Piat thought that as a member of parliament it was safe for her to fight the extortion rackets, drug trafficking and milking of public funds that flourish on France's most glamorous and shady playground.
▪ II. milking, ppl. a. rare.|ˈmɪlkɪŋ|
[f. milk v. + -ing2.]
That milks.
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 203 Milking maids and boys. 1847Tennyson Princess v. 213 You did but come as goblins in the night,..Nor burnt the grange, nor buss'd the milking-maid. 1891T. Hardy Tess xxii. (1892) 178 One or two of the milking-men. |