share-milk

English

Verb

share-milk (third-person singular simple present share-milks, present participle share-milking, simple past and past participle share-milked)

1. Alternative form of sharemilk
   • 1947, Appendix to the journals / New Zealand. Parliament.:

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

   • 2001, The Orchardist, page 38:

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

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

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

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

     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...

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

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

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

     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.

Anagrams

• haremliks, marshlike