milk house

Definition of milk house

: a building for the cooling, handling, or bottling of milk

Examples of milk house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The current incarnation of the Hornicek Farm in unincorporated Will County between Park Forest and University Park consists of the home, a barn, a milk house, a large two-room structure housing six hens and a rooster, and an organic garden. — Dennis Sullivan, Daily Southtown, "Historic Farm Walk in Park Forest offers time travel trip to age of outhouses, 'stress free life'," 14 June 2019 What began as a hobby 20 years ago and evolved into Meyer brewing craft beer in the kitchen, the laundry room and eventually a 150-year-old brick milk house on his five-acre property on Marley Road, will soon become reality. — Shonda Talerico Dudlicek, Daily Southtown, "Retired engineer bringing his brews from milk shed to main drag in New Lenox," 13 June 2018 Behind the milking house is the din of construction. — The Economist, "Why Qatar is raising cows in the desert," 17 May 2018 See the carriage house, 1860s barn, milk house and more. — 'sam' Boyer/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, "Dandelion Drive is a chance to learn area history and have fun," 13 May 2018 Farmer John Collins said officers handcuffed worker Marcial de Leon Aguilar in his milk house in central New York on Wednesday morning. — Fox News, "Immigration raid: Guatemalan worker arrested on dairy farm," 19 Apr. 2018

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“Milk house.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/milk%20house. Accessed 17 January 2020.

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