单词 | milched |
释义 | milchedadj. Now English regional. 1. a. Of an animal: (with new, old, stale, etc.) (newly) come into milk, having been in milk (for a long time), etc. Cf. new-milch adj. Now English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [adjective] > milked milched1648 1648 H. Ferne Serm. 8 Two new-milcht Kine drawing the Arke of God. 1754 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 1 June A New Milch'd Ass, with a She Foal not a Week old. 1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 23 The owner made a point of never keeping a Cow that was too old Milcht, or Milk'd too long from the time of Calving; or when any Cow went off her Milk..he always replaced her with a new Milcht one. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 986 Where they [sc. calves] suck stale milched cows. 1974 D. Wilson Staffs. Dial. Words 48 New melched, what a cow is said to be for about eight weeks after it has calved. ΚΠ 1653 N. Hookes Miscellanea Poetica in Amanda 151 Would'st thou but wave thy modestie, And look from top to toe, Above, below, What daintie things there be, Thy milk-white, full-milch't breast, [etc.]. ΚΠ 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 504 [A cow] who yields her milk readily is called ‘an easy melched one’. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Easy melched I like to milk Daisy, 'er's so aisy melched, an' gi'es aumust a cantle o' milk. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 314 Melched A cow is said to be hard-melched or easy-melched when she is difficult or easy to be milked. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1648 |
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