Crossword-Solution: MILKING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Milking | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Milk |
We have 2 clues for the answer “MILKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Farm job | 3 answers |
| Farmer's chore. | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZEMAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MILKING (5)
Carl nodded to him and hurried up the draw, past the garden, and into the pasture where the milking cows used to be kept.
Can you imagine a milking stool tilted and bowled violently along the ground? That was the impression those instant flashes gave.
You’d see a muddy sow and a litter of pigs come lazying along the street and whollop herself right down in the way, where folks had to walk around her, and she’d stretch out and shut her eyes and wave her ears whilst the pigs was milking her, and look as happy as if she was on salary.
And amidst all this greenery were figured over and over again two women, whereof one old and the other young; and the old one was clad in grand attire, with gold chains and brooches and rings, and sat with her hands before her by the house door, or stood looking on as the young one worked, spinning or digging in the garth, or milking the goats outside of it, or what not; and this one was clad in sorry and scanty raiment.
Our yard is fixed with double bails, Round one the grass is green, The bush is growing through the rails, The spike is rusted in; And 'twas from there his freckled face Would turn and smile at me -- He'd milk a dozen in the race While I was milking three.
Quotes with MILKING (3)
To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for unnecessary answers, it not only brings disgrace to the person raising it, but may prompt an incautious listener to give absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the laughable spectacle of one person milking a he-goat, and another holding the sieve underneath.
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1957–1998).