milk-man

plural milk-men

1. datedDated form of milkman.

   Some Days ſince died Mr. Brown, a Milk-man in Broad-ſtreet; […]

   1760 April 10, “London”, in The Public Advertiser, number 7924, London: W[ells] Egelsham, →OCLC, page [2], column 2

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   When Lady Russell, not long afterwards, was entering Bath on a wet afternoon, and driving through the long course of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden-place, amidst the dash of other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays, the bawling of newsmen, muffin-men and milk-men, and the ceaseless clink of pattens, she made no complaint.

   1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume III, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 34

   And then men began to open their front doors again, and shovel and pant, and pant and shovel, as they dug their way out into the world. Gradually there began to be postmen and butcher-boys and milk-men and horsecars and newspaper boys and policemen.

   1915 July, Rebecca [Lane] Hooper Eastman, “The Purple Star”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume CXVI, number 1, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2026, page 46, column 2