Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

milking parlor

American  

noun

  1. a room in or attached to a barn on a modern dairy farm maintained exclusively for the mechanical milking of cows.


Etymology

Origin of milking parlor

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Nearby, workers herded some of the animals onto a rotating platform within the farm’s milking parlor and quickly attached pumping equipment.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2024

One of the two people who had antibodies worked in the farm’s cafeteria adjacent to the milking parlor — alongside farmworkers but not cattle.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2024

This includes bathrooms, the expo hall and the milking parlor.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2021

The two rotating carousels of this milking parlor operate 22 hours a day, milking 7,900 cows three times each.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2016

Others went to the milking parlor twice a day as usual.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown