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milkhouse

milkhouse

4.1
A small building on a farm where people store and sometimes prepare milk and dairy products
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪlkˌhaʊs/
  • US
translation icon : lechería
  • In the milkhouse, fresh milk is cooled and stored in large containers.

Examples

  • You'll find the pails in the milkhouse.

    Summer Stock (1950)

  • The farmer cleaned the tools in the milkhouse before starting the day.

  • After milking the cows, she took the buckets to the milkhouse for processing.

Synonyms

dairy
vsmilkhouse
83 1.0

A farm or building where people make milk into cheese, butter, and cream

is smaller and used mainly for storing milk rather than full processing

How Big

dairy
83 1.0
creamery
5 4.0
milkhouse
  • US
4.1

Surface Forms

milkhouse singular
milkhouses plural

Morphology

milkhouse = milk + house (transparent) = milk + house

The meaning is directly derived from the combination of 'milk' and 'house', indicating a place related to milk.

Etymology

Milkhouse is simply milk + house, literally a 'house' for 'milk'. So a milkhouse on a farm is a small building where milk is kept cool and sometimes turned into dairy products.