Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Milk \Milk\ (m[i^]lk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milked (m[i^]lkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Milking.]
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To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. ``Milking the kine.''
--Gay.I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.
--Shak. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
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To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
--Tyndale.They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.
--London Spectator.To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant]
To milk a telegram, to use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]
Wiktionary
n. the act by which a cow, etc. is milked. vb. (present participle of milk English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Milking is the act of removing milk from the mammary glands of cattle, water buffalo, goats, sheep and more rarely camels, horses and donkeys. Milking may be done by hand or by machine, and requires the animal to be currently or recently pregnant.
Usage examples of "milking".
She screamed, feeling the hard jets of his semen as she climaxed around his flesh, her hips arching, her clit erupting in pleasure, lava thundered through her veins, bubbling with the fierce ecstasy as she pulsed around him, milking his cock, soaking his flesh.
But he was not irrigating fields, milking cows, or otherwise performing feats of agricultural masochism which might warrant such early rising.
Its management worshipped the super-capitalist ethic, expanding aggressively, milking governments for development contracts, pressuring the assembly for ever more convenient tax breaks, spreading subsidiaries across the Confederation, shafting the opposition at every opportunity.
The caravan stopped twice on the road to the commune called Cockaigne somewhere north of Taosonce to let Billie get into the truck with the cows and complete their milking, once to refuel the internal-combustion engines with gasoline brought along in colorful and oddly shaped pottery jars.
It was late afternoon when he would normally have been bringing in his cows for milking, and I wondered at his presence in the town until he turned round and I saw that his arm was in a sling.
Several weeks later I was called to the Scott farm to see a sick calf and the first thing I saw was Rip bringing the cows in for milking.
He was perched on a stool, milking one of his few cows, his cloth-capped head thrusting into the hairy flank, and as he pulled at the teats old Nip dropped a stone on the toe of his boot.
He felt it start in his toes, rising higher and higher, his belly on fire, hips thrusting ferociously, almost brutally, his hands pinning her to him, while he erupted with jets of hot cream, filling her, triggering an intense orgasm so that her body gripped and tightened, milking his until he collapsed over her, spent and momentarily sated.
One uncle had been in a pub in Leek following the Christmas fatstock market, and her cousin Brian had been milking the cows with his father.
He sat down on a milking stool in front of it, began to peel off his uniform.
He hefted the milk cans to the platform for the pickup truck of the Eastern Milkshed Administration and briefly considered washing out the milking machine and pails as he ought to.
When they reached the sodded arena, the men commenced milking the cows, the girls set in motion the different processes of the dairy, and the whole united in singing the Ranz des Vaches of the district.
Senators and governors were out in the snow, picking up baby livestock, milking cows, standing in schoolyards wrapped up in heavy overcoats, tossing footballs to red-faced blond kids.
Jack Shanklin, a dairyman in Sussex, was supervising the milking of his herd of Guernseys when the milking machines turned on him, murdered him, and then entered the Shanklin home and raped Mrs.
In the next courtyard, behind an iron grille, were the lunar-dust-covered rosebushes under which the lepers had slept during the great days of the house, and they had proliferated to such a degree in their abandonment that there was scarcely an odorless chink in that atmosphere of roses which mingled with the stench that came to us from the rear of the garden and the stink of the henhouse and the smell of dung and urine ferment of cows and soldiers from the colonial basilica that had been converted into a milking barn.