milker

UK: /ˈmɪlkə/ US: (mil′kər)

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milk•er  (mil′kər), n. 

1. a person or thing that milks.
2. See milking machine. 
3. Animal Husbandry a cow or other animal that gives milk.

• milk + -er¹ 1490–1500

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milker / ˈmɪlkə/ noun

1. a cow, goat, etc, that yields milk, esp of a specified quality or amount: a poor milker
2. a person who milks

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milk /mɪlk/   n. 

1. Physiology a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving to nourish their young:
   [uncountable] fed by mother's milk.
2. this liquid from cows or other animals, used by humans for food or to make butter, cheese, etc.:
   [uncountable] a glass of milk.
   [countable] He took two milks with his coffee (= two measures of milk).
3. [uncountable] any liquid resembling this, as the liquid within a coconut.

v. [~ + object]

4. to draw milk from the udder or breast of:
   milked the cows twice every day.
5. to take out or extract something from, as if by milking:
   The snake handler carefully milked the rattlesnake of its venom.
6. to get something from;
   steal from:
   milked her of all her savings.
7. to extract;
   draw out;
   obtain:
   to milk laughs from the audience.

milk•er, n. [countable]
milk•i•ness, n. [uncountable]
milk•y, adj., -i•er, -i•est. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

milk  (milk), n. 

1. Physiology an opaque white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals, serving for the nourishment of their young.
2. this liquid as secreted by cows, goats, or certain other animals and used by humans for food or as a source of butter, cheeses, yogurt, etc.
3. any liquid resembling this, as the liquid within a coconut, the juice or sap of certain plants, or various pharmaceutical preparations.
4. Idioms cry over spilled milk, to lament what cannot be changed or corrected;
   express sorrow for past actions or events:
   Crying over spilled milk will do you no good now.

v.t. 

5. to press or draw milk from the udder or breast of.
6. to extract something from as if by milking.
7. to get something from;
   exploit:
   The swindler milked her of all her savings.
8. to extract;
   draw out:
   He's good at milking laughs from the audience.

v.i. 

9. to yield milk, as a cow.
10. to milk a cow or other mammal.

• bef. 900; Middle English; Old English meol(o)c, (Anglian) milc; cognate with German Milch, Old Norse mjōlk, Gothic miluks; akin to Latin mulgēre, Greek amélgein to milk

milk′less, adj.