Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

share-milk

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English

Syllables: share-milk
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of sharemilk.

verb

To milk a cow, sheep, goat, etc for human consumption, while allowing the calf, lamb, kid, etc to continue to suckle from its mother.

Example Sentences

"Sections will be allotted later this year with herds either milked on wages or share-milked for one season."
"Till then Grant had share-milked on the family's Waikato dairy farm."
"He share-milked and did timber contracting in the off season with the farmer."
"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..."
"I also planned to share-milk the house cow I'd get."
"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."

Inflected Forms

share-milks (present, singular) share-milking (participle, present) share-milked (participle, past) share-milked (past)

Questions

What does share-milk mean?: Alternative form of sharemilk.

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