To milk (a cow); esp. to draw the last milk from (a cow) by pressing the teat. Also figurative. Cf. stroking, n.; also strap, v.2, strip, v.3 1.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)] > draw last milk from (6) stroke1538 To milk (a cow); esp. to draw the last milk from (a cow) by pressing the teat. Also figurative. Cf. stroking, n.; also strap, v.2, strip, v.3 1. strip?1610 transitive. To extract (the milk from a cow's udder). Now spec. to extract the milk remaining in the udder after the normal milking, esp. by a… jib1728 transitive. To fleece; to strip; to milk closely, drain to the dregs. strap1854 (See quots.) strop1884 transitive. = strap, v.2 to milk out1950 to milk out: (a) intransitive (of cattle) to yield all the milk in the udders; (b) transitive to empty (the udder) of milk. |
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