milking stool
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6.0
- noun
- /ˈmɪlkɪŋ stuːl/
:
taburete de ordeñar
- Milking a dry udder gets you nothing but kicked off the milking stool.
- sit on a milking stool
Examples
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While Maria forks hay to the cows before she sits down on the milking stool, rocking on its rickety, manure-caked legs, the wind outside grows stronger.
Fiction book (1998) -
When LeRoi walked in, he saw that all the adult men of the Tremain family were standing around his great-uncle, Henry Tremain, who was sitting on a milking stool.
Fiction book (2001) -
(He sets up the milking stool and the pail.)
Fiction book (1992) -
Across from me, Sophia perched on a milking stool in her militant Armani, looking like a peacock in a henhouse, poised for flight.
Fiction book (1998) -
The effigy used in the moonlit White Russian ad, for instance, also appears in the ad for Kahlua and Cream, where it is improbably perched on a milking stool in the heartland of the United States.
Academic text (2000) -
She placed the milking stool beside the cow and sat down to begin her work.
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After setting up the barn, he settled onto the milking stool to start milking the dairy cow.
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The farmer adjusted the milking stool so he could comfortably reach the cow's udder.
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Morphology
The compound is transparently built from 'milking' (relating to drawing milk) + 'stool' (a single-person seat), so its meaning 'a stool used for milking' is directly inferable from the constituents. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and should be clear to an average B1 learner who knows the component words.
Etymology
Milking stool comes from a simple seat farmers sat on while milking cows: a low stool for milking with three legs that stayed steady on an uneven barn floor. So the name means 'a low, three-legged stool used while milking'.