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milkhouse en · NOUN

Etymology

From milk + house. Compare Dutch melkhuis, German Milchhaus.

Meanings

1. A building (or portion thereof) on a dairy farm where milk is collected, cooled, and stored temporarily, pending sale and shipment.
   • The milkhouse should be well insulated so that a minimum amount of heat will be needed during winter. 1949, University of Wisconsin. Extension Service, Special circular:
   • On many farms the early milkhouse and pumphouse were one. Most farmers during the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with a herd of milk cows had a milkhouse. 1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm:
2. A building where milk is processed into products such as butter or cheese; a dairy.

Forms

Coordinates

tackroom (room in a barn for a specific purpose) · springhouse (separate outbuilding) · milk churns (parts of a dairy farm) · milking machine (parts of a dairy farm) · milking parlour (parts of a dairy farm) · feedroom (room in a barn for a specific purpose) · milkshed (parts of a dairy farm)

Relateds

milk truck