Share-milk
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Share-milk is a verb meaning To milk a cow, sheep, goat, etc for human consumption, while allowing the calf, lamb, kid, etc to continue to suckle from its mother.
Meaning
To milk a cow, sheep, goat, etc for human consumption, while allowing the calf, lamb, kid, etc to continue to suckle from its mother.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of sharemilk.
Example Sentences
I also planned to share-milk the house cow I'd get.
Till then Grant had share-milked on the family's Waikato dairy farm.
He share-milked and did timber contracting in the off season with the farmer.
Sections will be allotted later this year with herds either milked on wages or share-milked for one season.
Word Forms
- share-milks
- share-milking
- share-milked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sharemilk, share-herd, self-suck, stock, bottle-feed, calve.
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