milking table
- noun
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mesa de ordeñar
- The farmer demonstrated how to use a milking table during the morning chores.
Examples
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She cleaned the milking table thoroughly before bringing in the cows.
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Modern dairies sometimes replace the traditional milking table with automated equipment.
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The farmer uses a milking table every morning.
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A milking table can make the process easier.
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The farmer demonstrated how to use a milking table during the morning chores.
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She cleaned the milking table thoroughly before bringing in the cows.
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Modern dairies sometimes replace the traditional milking table with automated equipment.
How Useful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'milk' (the action of drawing milk) + 'table' (a flat surface), with 'milking' functioning as a modifier indicating purpose or use. This noun-modifier composition is a common and regular English pattern (and found in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer it is a table used for milking animals.
Etymology
Milking table comes from a simple farm tool: farmers used a raised table to bring the cow's udder up to a comfortable height for milking, so the work was easier. So, it means 'a table used for milking cows' today.