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Milker   Listen
noun
Milker  n.  
1.
One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
2.
A cow or other animal that gives milk.





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"Milker" Quotes from Famous Books



... greed of honest farmers and God-fearing, railroad-hating citizens. If a granger let his fence fall down and a rickety cow disputed the right of way with a locomotive's cow-catcher, the granger naturally put in a claim for the destruction of a prize-winning animal with a record as an amazing milker; also he added something for damage to the feelings of the family in the loss of a household pet. It was Adna's business to beat the shyster lawyers to the granger and beat the granger to the last penny. ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... advantage be collected in the sterile bottle directly since the mouth is sufficiently wide for the milker to direct the stream of ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... As if some god had snatch'd their voice away. Not so the Trojans; from their host ascends A general shout that all the region rends. As when the fleecy flocks unnumber'd stand In wealthy folds, and wait the milker's hand, The hollow vales incessant bleating fills, The lambs reply from all the neighbouring hills: Such clamours rose from various nations round, Mix'd was the murmur, and confused the sound. Each host ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer
... and were hying home after sunset, when they were encountered by a country fellow—a sort of Harry Jekyl in his way—who, being equipped with a glass or two of whisky, saw not the nobility of blood through her disguise, and accosted the daughter of a hundred sires as he would have done a ewe-milker. Miss Mowbray remonstrated—her companion screamed—up came cousin Francis with a fowlingpiece on his shoulder, and soon put the sylvan ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... herders were considered outcasts, and of no social account. To kill one was by some considered a kindness, for it ended the misery of a man who would go crazy watching the shifting, crawling maggots anyway. It was bad enough to be a cow milker, but to be a ...
— The Eagle's Heart • Hamlin Garland


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