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

  • noun A girl or woman who milks cows.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy.

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

  • noun A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.

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

  • noun A girl or young woman who milked the cows on a farm before milking machines were introduced in the 20th century.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a woman who works in a dairy

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