cow-keepern.
A keeper of cows, a dairyman.
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dairy-woman1609
cow-keeper1638
dairyman1784
dairy-farmer1790
cow-feeder1805
milk farmer1805
cow-banger1892
cow-cocky1914
cow-spanker1917
1638 Boston Town Rec. XI. 33 William Hudson shall be the cowkeeper.
1638 Boston Town Rec. VII. 25 Edward Dauis is appointed be Cow keper & pounder.
1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius iv. 43 Heav'n keep me a Cow-keeper still..I say.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 31 [He] had his head broke by a cow-keeper.
1843 H. W. Longfellow Spanish Student i. ii. 17 Now here's my master, Victorian, yesterday a cowkeeper, and to-day a gentleman.
1886 E. Lynn Linton in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 509 A lady of rank is a cowkeeper and profits by her dairy-farm.
Derivatives
ˈcow-keeping n. and adj. (a) n. dairy-farming; (b) adj. that keeps cows, that manages a dairy farm.
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1656 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. IX. 193 Upon the request of Giles Corey to be taken of from Cow keeping.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 870 The bull-field has since been..occupied by a great cow-keeping landlord.
1883 A. R. Wallace Land Nationalization 121 The habits of thrift and forethought encouraged by cowkeeping and dairying.
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