单词 | new-milch |
释义 | new-milchadj. Now U.S. regional (chiefly north-eastern and Great Lakes). Of a cow, ass, etc.: recently in milk. Cf. milched adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [adjective] > yielding milk milchc1300 milky1557 new-milch1569 milkful1589 glad-milch1601 milchy1606 blithe1656 in milk1797 1569 W. Samuel Abridgem. Old Test.: 1 Kings vi. sig. G.viv Fully and whole they did consent, that home the Ark should wend:..Two kine new milche did cary it the right way home they went. 1630 J. Winthrop Let. 9 Sept. in Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. App. 378 Some more cows would be brought, especially two new milch, which must be well mealed and milked by the way. 1682 London Mercury 8–11 May 2/2 A Very good New Milch Ass with her Foal, is to be sold. 1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2420 It yields great quantities of hat, to much of it is such a nature that it will dry up a new Milch-Cow, starve an Horse, yet will it feed an Oxe to admiration. 1834 in S. L. Palmer Lang. West Central Massachusetts (1988) 31 [For sale:] 10 cows, New Milch, or near calving. 1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 639/1 ‘Never fergit,’ said Silas, ‘the time when he bought a fine new milch Jarsey at auction fer five dollars.’ 1903 J. T. Trowbridge Poet. Wks. i. 52 The new milch heifer is quick and shy, But the old cow waits with tranquil eye. 1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 783/1 She's a new-milks cow. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1569 |
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