milk churn

English

cow and milk churn

a stakebody milk truck carrying milk cans

Alternative forms

• milk-churn

Noun

milk churn (plural milk churns)

1. A tall, conical or cylindrical container for the transportation of milk.

   Synonym: milk can

   Coordinate term: milk truck

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 7”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     "Why, mother," laughed the farmer as he passed through the kitchen, swinging the great milk-churns, "you've got almost more than you can manage there."

Related terms

• milk cow
• milking machine
• milking parlour

Translations

conical or cylindrical container for the transportation of milk

• Catalan: lletera f
• Finnish: maitotonkka (fi)
• French: pot à lait (fr), pot au lait (fr)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: melkespann n

• Polish: bańka na mleko f
• Russian: бидо́н для молока́ m (bidón dlja moloká)
• Swedish: mjölkkanna (sv) c, mjölkkruka (sv) c
• Turkish: süt güğümü

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