n. An animal that gives milk; a milch animal, as a cow or a goat. More commonly milker.
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n. cattle that are reared for their milk
Word Usage
"Tess's attention was thus attracted to the dairyman's interlocutor, of whom she could see but the merest patch, owing to his burying his head so persistently in the flank of the milcher."