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milker

milker

3.2
A machine that takes milk from cows and collects it
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪlkər/
  • Specialized
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  • The dairy farm decided to automate their milking process by incorporating several robotic milkers.

Examples

  • With the automatic milker, the cows are milked without any human assistance each morning.

  • We had a story that dairy farms in upstate New York now have robotic cow milkers, robots milking cows.

  • The farmer installed a new milker to improve the efficiency of his dairy operation.

Synonyms

milking machine
vsmilker
  • Specialized
1 3.4

A tool that collects milk from cows

automates extraction and collection without any manual handling or operation

How Automated

milker
  • Specialized
3.2
milking machine
  • Specialized
1 3.4

Surface Forms

milker singular
milkers plural

Morphology

milker = milk (transparent) = milk + er

Productive agentive formation from the verb 'milk'; here it denotes a device that performs the milking action, which is inferable.

Etymology

Milker comes from milk plus the ending -er, which makes a word for 'one or something that does' an action, just like baker. That is why a milker can mean a machine that 'milks' cows automatically.