milkmann.

1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 942 A milke man, lactarius.

1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 19. 151 A Vestry of Tumblers cry'd out for the Lusty Milk-man at the Pindars of Wakefield.

1679 Trials of Green, Berry 65 On Friday morning our Milkman came and told us, that one Mr. Godfrey was found murdered.

1789 N.Y. Directory 55 Long, Christopher, milkman, 3 Mulberry street.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. x. 154 The butcher throws down his tray,..the milk-man his pail.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. v. 94 The paper-boy was beginning, with the milkman, his rounds.

1932 T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes 29 If he was alive then the milkman wasn't and the rent-collector wasn't.

1988 M. Moorcock Mother London ii. 82 Even the milkman had not yet delivered.

1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 39 Other milk men speak of trials with the common blood-beet for the feed of milch cows with great advantage.

1857 Lady Falkland Chow-chow I. viii. 159 ‘Gowlee’ means a cowherd, and is often used to denote cowherds and milkmen who are not of Gowlee caste.

1860 Amer. Agriculturist Dec. 362/1 They [sc. the beets] are of great value as feed for milch cows in Winter. A milkman in Troy, N. Y., after experimenting with other roots used for this purpose, gives the preference to the sugar beet.

1898 Cosmopolitan June 132/1 The good-hearted milkman..is milking his cows in front of the big house with the patio.

1938 R. K. Narayan Dark Room vi. 92 Savitri was in the veranda, watching the milkman milk the cow.

2000 Chem. & Industry 18 Sept. 609 The milkman would milk his cow to order.