Definition of "milkers" [milkers]

• Plural form of milker. (noun)

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• "Kerries are greatly prized as "milkers," and they yield good beef, but very little of it -- not more than four hundredweight per beast."
• "He recalled instead the warm sunshine on the fertile expanse of fields; the sleek, well-fed herds of "milkers" coming lowing down the road under the maples; the prosperous and hospitable farmhouses, with their orchards in blossom and their spacious red barns; the bountiful boiled dinners which cheery housewives served up with their own skilled hands."
• ""milkers," for in his youth Stafford had lived on a farm and he remembered days when his father had sent him out into the meadow to drive the cows home for the milking."