milkery

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English

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Etymology

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From milk +‎ -ery.

Noun

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milkery (plural milkeries)

  1. A place where animals are milked.
    • 1862, “Health Track, No. 82. Milk—Its Uses.”, in W[illiam] W[hitty] Hall, editor, Hall’s Journal of Health, volume IX, New York, N.Y.: [] the Editor, [], and [] Trubner & Company, [], London:
      But a cow confined on ship-board, in the stable of a private citizen, or in the narrow stenchy stalls of the milkeries which supply cities, does not live a natural life, and can not by any possibility give natural, healthful milk; []
    • 1892, Lee Meriwether, Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 60:
      There were eight cows in the milkery where we went—a room thirty-five feet deep by sixteen wide.
    • 1974, Suzy McKee Charnas, The Slave and the Free: Walk to the End of the World, Motherlines, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, published 1999, →ISBN, page 65:
      [] what more nutritious additive than the flesh of dead fems and of fem-cubs who did not survive the milkery?
    • 2013, Martin W. Bowman, A Bridge Too Far?, Pen & Sword Aviation, →ISBN:
      The milkery, bakery, horse stables and pig sties were all burned out.