milch cow

noun

Origin of milch cow

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425

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That one milch-cow shall be kept and calf reared for every sixty sheep and ten oxen during the following seven years.
Landholding In England | Joseph Fisher
They had an idea that the Expedition was a kind of milch cow out of which money could be extracted to their hearts' content.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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.
The Prime Minister | Anthony Trollope
Thou wast eight winters on the earth below, a milch cow and a woman, and didst there bear children.
The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson | Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson
Mrs. Roberts, who had the only milch cow in the Bad Lands, had been churning, and offered Roosevelt a glass of buttermilk.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands | H. Hagedorn.

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