mulke

Yola

Alternative forms

• melk

Etymology

From Middle English mulke, melke, from Old English melcan, meolcan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊɫk/, /mɛɫk/

Verb

mulke (simple past multh)

1. to milk
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Mulke a beasthes.

     Milk the cows.

Related terms

• mulk (“milk”)

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57