share-milk

present singular third person share-milks · participle present share-milking · participle past share-milked · past share-milked

1. alternativeAlternative form of sharemilk.

   Till then Grant had share-milked on the family's Waikato dairy farm.

   2001, The Orchardist, page 38

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   Sections will be allotted later this year with herds either milked on wages or share-milked for one season.

   1947, Appendix to the journals / New Zealand. Parliament.

   He share-milked and did timber contracting in the off season with the farmer.

   2015, Nick Farrell, Hermetic Tablet Winter, →ISBN, page 221

2. To milk a cow, sheep, goat, etc for human consumption, while allowing the calf, lamb, kid, etc to continue to suckle from its mother.

   I also planned to share-milk the house cow I'd get.

   2003, Lyn McConchie, Elizabeth Underwood, Daze on the Land: The Further Adventures of a Middle-aged Woman Farmer, →ISBN

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   Suckling stimulates milk production and the removal of milk is crucial for maintaining lactation. University of WA trials show share-milked ewes produced more milk than...

   2001, Farming Ahead with the Kondinin Group - Issues 109-120, page 448

   One of his school holiday jobs at the Robbs farm had been tending the two cows share-milked with their calves; a system of penning the calves over night, and in the morning hand-milking the mothers first.

   2010, Nicco McKenzie, Rhythms of Water, →ISBN, page 82