milch cow

noun

1. milk cow.

Word History and Origins

Origin of milch cow¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425

Example Sentences

That one milch-cow shall be kept and calf reared for every sixty sheep and ten oxen during the following seven years.

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They had an idea that the Expedition was a kind of milch cow out of which money could be extracted to their hearts' content.

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But now she began to perceive that her father was to be regarded as a milch cow, and that she was to be the dairy-maid.

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Thou wast eight winters on the earth below, a milch cow and a woman, and didst there bear children.

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Mrs. Roberts, who had the only milch cow in the Bad Lands, had been churning, and offered Roosevelt a glass of buttermilk.

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