WordNet
n. cattle that are reared for their milk [syn: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milcher, milker]
Usage examples of "milk cow".
After that they fetched a milk cow, belonging to Rafael Maestas, that had bucked like hell last year if you zapped her in the udder -- just before the chute gate opened -- with a cattle prod.
Several times Gus had heard a large animal in the underbrush and pulled his rifle, expecting to flush a bear or a deer, only to scare out a milk cow or a couple of heifers or even a few goats.
A milk cow was an asset precious enough to be displayed for visitors, Arkady thought.
We know now that the milk fever that killed Abe Lincoln's mother was inspired by poisonous snake-roots their milk cow had been into.
A good milk cow would go a long way to keeping a small family fed, between the milk and a calf every year or two.
Clarie complained that he gave hay to the horses, but forgot the milk cow.
Besides his captives, Ser Gregor was bringing back a dozen pigs, a cage of chickens, a scrawny milk cow, and nine wagons of salt fish.