MILKER (milker)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: milker   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does milker mean? 

• MILKER (noun)
  The noun MILKER has 1 sense:

1. cattle that are reared for their milk

  Familiarity information: MILKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cattle that are reared for their milk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dairy cattle; dairy cow; milch cow; milcher; milk cow; milker

Hypernyms ("milker" is a kind of...):

Bos taurus; cattle; cows; kine; oxen (domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "milker"):

Ayrshire (hardy breed of dairy cattle from Ayr, Scotland)

Brown Swiss (large hardy brown breed of dairy cattle from Switzerland)

Jersey (a breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey)

milking shorthorn (breed evolved from shorthorn beef cattle)

Friesian; Holstein; Holstein-Friesian (a breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland)

Guernsey (breed of dairy cattle from the island of Guernsey)

 Context examples 

Never mind. I have here a nice beautiful new cow, the best milker in California.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Those two beautiful sonnets that you transmuted into the cow that was accounted the worst milker in the township.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)