milkshed

American  

[milk-shed] / ˈmɪlkˌʃɛd /

noun

1. a region producing milk for a specific community.

   the St. Louis milkshed.

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Etymology

Origin of milkshed

1925–30, milk + shed ², on the model of watershed

Example Sentences

It also brought into the milkshed a formularized way of figuring milk prices: the "blended price."

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the "milk war" of 1883 there has been little peace in the milkshed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Best news about milk was that the shortage was breaking down the milkshed barriers which local dairy lobbies had fostered for years to keep out competition from other sections.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Dairymen's League Co-operative Association, an organization representing some 27,000 of the 44,000 milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, made no bones about having done the job.

From Time Magazine Archive

Like Alexandria and Falls Church, the county's other major shipping centers, Herndon served what was known as a "milkshed" area, that is a community whose milk could be transported to that locality without spoiling.

From Frying Pan Farm by Pryor, Elizabeth Brown