milch

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of a cow or other female animal: producing milk, especially when kept for dairy use

   The farmer separated the milch cows from the young cattle before dawn.

Common collocations

• milch cow Adjective + noun

From Middle English milche, from an Old English adjective related to melcan ("to milk"), ultimately from the same Germanic family as milk. The word survives chiefly in the fixed agricultural expression milch cow.

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