share-milker

English

Noun

share-milker (plural share-milkers)

1. Alternative form of sharemilker
   • 1940, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates - Volume 257, page 256:

     This gentleman bought a farm, unimproved, thirty years ago, and he has had his present share-milker for fourteen years.

   • 2001, John Crook, Henry Osmaston, Himalayan Buddhist Villages, →ISBN:

     At Karsha they said that cattle on the Pensi-La would produce about 5kg of butter, and that a share-milker would take half of this.

   • 2009, Rattan Lal, Agricultural Sciences - Volume I, →ISBN, page 151:

     An interesting system to facilitate the entry rate of young people into the industry is provided by the share-milker program of New Zealand.