milch cow


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Noun1.milch cow - cattle that are reared for their milkmilch cow - cattle that are reared for their milk
Bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen - domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"
Ayrshire - hardy breed of dairy cattle from Ayr, Scotland
Brown Swiss - large hardy brown breed of dairy cattle from Switzerland
Jersey - a breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey
milking shorthorn - breed evolved from shorthorn beef cattle
Friesian, Holstein, Holstein-Friesian - a breed of dairy cattle from northern Holland
Guernsey - breed of dairy cattle from the island of Guernsey
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milch cow

[ˈmɪltʃkaʊ] Nvaca f lechera
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Red cattle, black, white, and yellow cattle; old cattle and young cattle; great bellowing bulls and little calves not an hour born; meek-eyed milch cows and fierce, long-horned Texas steers.
She liked the pasture best where the milch cows were lying, and next to that the meadow where the grass was half-mown, and lay in silvered sweeping lines.
"Sometimes, indeed, the neighbours thought it strange that the rich Miller never gave little Hans anything in return, though he had a hundred sacks of flour stored away in his mill, and six milch cows, and a large flock of woolly sheep; but Hans never troubled his head about these things, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to listen to all the wonderful things the Miller used to say about the unselfishness of true friendship.
If we were to remain in the EU it would be as a powerless, ineffective and totally marginalised entity - a mere passive milch cow existing only to fund the federalising excess of Brussels.
While speaking on the highlights of the package, the Chief Minister said, "Compensation shall be provided towards loss of animals at the rate of Rs 30,000 per milch cow and buffalo, Rs 25,000 per draught animal, Rs 3,000 per goat."
And it has plainly been caused by 45 years' membership of the European dictatorship ruled by Germany and France, which operates without democracy or annual accounts and treats Britain like a milch cow. I believe that it was management, your lot, who insisted on the open borders treaty which I thought we did not agree with, but they came in their millions anyway - are you proud of that as well Mr Harrison?!
A milch cow costs a dairyman Rs 500/- per day in fodder.
Even as you continue to squeeze whatever you can from sectors of this economy that still work and produce, remember that milk is not obtained by drying the milch cow.
"To be honest, I felt a bit like a milch cow when I was breastfeeding, a bit unfeminine, particularly when you've got a pump," she said.
It is quite obvious he only looks on the club as, a milch cow. He appears to spend as little as he can get away with, so the profit at the end of the year will always exceed outlay.
It is obvious he only looks on the club as a milch cow. He appears to spend as little as he can get away with, so the profit at the end of the year will always exceed outlay.
I am concerned with the question of immigration but my main interest is that Britain should not have to be the "milch cow" of the EU, which she has been ever since we joined the then Common Market!