Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The district or the round of customers served by a milkman or his employees, or the business built up by him in this round or route: as, to buy or to establish a milk-route.
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Examples
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One department of this domestic school is the supervision of a milk-route.
In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
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"I shall buy in some more stock this spring, and I expect to set up a milk-route."
Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902
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I daresay Harvey would come around, after he'd finished with his milk-route in the forenoon.
The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic 1877
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Just like a milk-route; or like a London crossing-sweepership.
Following the Equator, Part 5 Mark Twain 1872
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Just like a milk-route; or like a London crossing-sweepership.
Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872
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By the establishment of a butter-factory or cheese-factory, or by the common ownership of a milk-route, or where tobacco is grown by the undertaking of its manufacture as an employment for winter, or by the raising of honey or of poultry, or by the establishment of some valuable breed of live stock with a reputation for excellence that will cause it to be sought for from abroad, or by some other combination, they would secure profitable business.
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