"milkhouse" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: milkhouses [plural], milk house [alternative], milk-house [alternative]
Etymology: From milk + house. Compare Dutch melkhuis, German Milchhaus. Etymology templates: {{com|en|milk|house}} milk + house, {{cog|nl|melkhuis}} Dutch melkhuis, {{cog|de|Milchhaus}} German Milchhaus Head templates: {{en-noun}} milkhouse (plural milkhouses)
  1. A building (or portion thereof) on a dairy farm where milk is collected, cooled, and stored temporarily, pending sale and shipment. Coordinate_terms (parts of a dairy farm): milkshed, milking parlour, milking machine, milk churns Coordinate_terms (room in a barn for a specific purpose): feedroom, tackroom Coordinate_terms (separate outbuilding): springhouse (english: sometimes the same outbuilding, especially in the era before mechanical refrigeration)
    Sense id: en-milkhouse-en-noun-g5wbeoOs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Buildings, Dairy farming Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 72 28 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 74 26 Disambiguation of Buildings: 70 30 Disambiguation of Dairy farming: 75 25 Disambiguation of 'parts of a dairy farm': 84 16 Disambiguation of 'room in a barn for a specific purpose': 70 30 Disambiguation of 'separate outbuilding': 64 36
  2. A building where milk is processed into products such as butter or cheese; a dairy.
    Sense id: en-milkhouse-en-noun-3lsn6s17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: milk truck (english: visits the milkhouse often, to pick up the milk)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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