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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A device used to measure the specific gravity, and therefore the richness, of milk.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument for gaging the purity or richness of samples of milk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A device that estimates the cream content of milk by measuring its specific gravity

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  • (n): A graduated densimeter which measures the density of milk, from which the cream content can be calculated, as in skim, 2%, 4%, whole, etc.

    January 4, 2009

  • No, its not a gauge to compare how much comes from so-and-so's you-know-whats to fulano-y-tal's. Please, people. It is a type of hydrometer.

    January 4, 2009