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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who milks cows; any mechanical device for milking cows.

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Examples

  • His wife and one trusty woman manage dairy and cookery with eminent success, and various sales, while he is cow-milker and gardener, student also of fruit and of the soil.

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • Nevertheless, it is somewhat remarkable that my hands have, during the past summer, grown very brown and rough, insomuch that many people persist in believing that I, after all, was the aforesaid spectral horn-sounder, cow-milker, potato-hoer, and hay-raker.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902

  • Nevertheless, it is somewhat remarkable that my hands have, during the past summer, grown very brown and rough, insomuch that many people persist in believing that I, after all, was the aforesaid spectral horn-sounder, cow-milker, potato-hoer, and hay-raker.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892

  • Nevertheless, it is somewhat remarkable that my hands have, during the past summer, grown very brown and rough, insomuch that many people persist in believing that I, after all, was the aforesaid spectral horn-sounder, cow-milker, potato-hoer, and hay-raker.

    Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Why, he's only a little, bow-legged, big-nosed meddler -- a man with a woman's voice -- a sneaking cook and camp-doctor and cow-milker, and God only knows what else. "

    The Mysterious Rider Zane Grey 1905

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