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: --
The directors milked the company of several million dollars.
[ + obj + adj ] The newspapers milked the story dry.
Milk partitioning and flow rate during machine milking according to parity, prolificacy and mode of suckling.
Before milking started, designated teat cup liners were swabbed to check cleanliness.
These liners were subsequently found to fit poorly, and air drained into the milk during milking.
However, good milking hygiene and properly working milking machines probably reduce the degree of faecal contamination of raw milk.
These observations were coherent with the segregation of a biallelic major gene, with a favourable and recessive allele increasing milking speed.
Record companies milking back catalogues for the cinema screen was highly evident.
The third group, mated to high milking speed females, gave daughters with either low or high milking speed.
Milking time depends on many environmental conditions (milking parlour, milking machine parameters) and also on the ability of animals for milking.