"share-milk" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: share-milks [present, singular, third-person], share-milking [participle, present], share-milked [participle, past], share-milked [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} share-milk (third-person singular simple present share-milks, present participle share-milking, simple past and past participle share-milked)
  1. Alternative form of sharemilk Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: sharemilk
    Sense id: en-share-milk-en-verb-oRniO2wk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35
  2. To milk a cow, sheep, goat, etc for human consumption, while allowing the calf, lamb, kid, etc to continue to suckle from its mother.
    Sense id: en-share-milk-en-verb-agTKyGbU

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