milk churn

Meanings

nounmilk churn (plural milk churns)

plural milk churns · alternative milk-churn

A tall, conical or cylindrical container for the transportation of milk.
"Why, mother," laughed the farmer as he passed through the kitchen, swinging the great milk-churns, "you've got almost more than you can manage there."
1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 7”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
Synonyms: milk can

nounA tall, conical or cylindrical container for the transportation of milk.

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Also see

Catalan lletera

Finnish maitotonkka

French pot à lait, pot au lait

Japanese ミルク缶

Korean 우유통

Norwegian Bokmål melkespann

Polish bańka na mleko

Russian бидо́н для молока́

бидо́н для молока́ (bidón dlja moloká)conical or cylindrical container for the transportation of milk

Swedish mjölkkanna, mjölkkruka

Turkish süt güğümü

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