milk churn

English

Alternative forms

• milk-churn

Noun

milk churn (plural milk churns)

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

Synonyms

• (conical or cylindrical container for the transportation of milk): milk can

Coordinate terms

• bulk liquid transport

Related terms

• milking machine

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

• Russian: бидо́н для молока́ m (bidón dlja moloká)
• Turkish: süt güğümü

Anagrams

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