milkery

English

Etymology

From milk +‎ -ery.

Noun

milkery (plural milkeries)

1. A place where animals are milked.
   • 1862, “Health Track, No. 82. Milk—Its Uses.”, in W[illiam] W[hitty] Hall, editor, Hall’s Journal of Health, volume IX, New York, N.Y.: […] the Editor, […], and […] Trubner & Company, […], London:

     But a cow confined on ship-board, in the stable of a private citizen, or in the narrow stenchy stalls of the milkeries which supply cities, does not live a natural life, and can not by any possibility give natural, healthful milk; […]

   • 1892, Lee Meriwether, Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 60:

     There were eight cows in the milkery where we went—a room thirty-five feet deep by sixteen wide.

   • 1974, Suzy McKee Charnas, The Slave and the Free: Walk to the End of the World, Motherlines, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, published 1999, →ISBN, page 65:

     […] what more nutritious additive than the flesh of dead fems and of fem-cubs who did not survive the milkery?

   • 2013, Martin W. Bowman, A Bridge Too Far?, Pen & Sword Aviation, →ISBN:

     The milkery, bakery, horse stables and pig sties were all burned out.