0 present participle of milk
1 to get milk from an animal:
2 to get as much money or information out of someone or something as possible, often in an unfair or dishonest way:
[ + obj + adj ] The newspapers milked the story dry.
The directors milked the company of several million dollars.
Where ranching predominates, wetlands provide choice dry-season pastures; corrals and milking sheds often perch on the islands.
The cattle and calves were housed in sheds and pens in adjacent buildings to the milking parlour or across the farmyard.
These hoses were used for cleaning milking equipment and washing down the milking area.
For each milking, the milk samples were collected separately and a suitable proportionate aliquot mixed.
The women in the field study were mainly engaged in milking, butter-making and animal care, in addition to housework.
Estimated genetic and phenotypic correlations between milking speed and dairy traits were low, positive for yields and negative for contents.
Most of the redundant cattle enclosures were transformed into sheepfolds partly for milking, but probably mainly to shelter flocks during the night or bad weather.
Milking time depends on many environmental conditions (milking parlour, milking machine parameters) and also on the ability of animals for milking.
