Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

share-milk en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of sharemilk.
    alt of sharemilk
    • Sections will be allotted later this year with herds either milked on wages or share-milked for one season. 1947, Appendix to the journals / New Zealand. Parliament.:
    • Till then Grant had share-milked on the family's Waikato dairy farm. 2001, The Orchardist, page 38:
    • He share-milked and did timber contracting in the off season with the farmer. 2015, Nick Farrell, Hermetic Tablet Winter, →ISBN, page 221:
  2. To milk a cow, sheep, goat, etc for human consumption, while allowing the calf, lamb, kid, etc to continue to suckle from its mother.
    • Suckling stimulates milk production and the removal of milk is crucial for maintaining lactation. University of WA trials show share-milked ewes produced more milk than... 2001, Farming Ahead with the Kondinin Group - Issues 109-120, page 448:
    • I also planned to share-milk the house cow I'd get. 2003, Lyn McConchie, Elizabeth Underwood, Daze on the Land: The Further Adventures of a Middle-aged Woman Farmer, →ISBN:
    • One of his school holiday jobs at the Robbs farm had been tending the two cows share-milked with their calves; a system of penning the calves over night, and in the morning hand-milking the mothers first. 2010, Nicco McKenzie, Rhythms of Water, →ISBN, page 82:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
share-milks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
share-milked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
share-milked Tense=Past lexicographic
share-milking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic