1
: the protuberance through which milk is drawn from an udder or breast : nipple
2
: a small projection or a nib (as on a mechanical part)
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Carlos Rodriguez squeezes a cow’s teat to check the quality of the milk coming out of it.
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
Dairy farm workers typically express milk by hand from cow teats before attaching milking equipment.
—Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Other workers have chronic pain from the repetitive motions of attaching tubes to cow teats hundreds of times a day.
—Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 3 June 2024
A lot of those cattle are still alive but the hooves are burned off, the teats on their udders are burned off.
—Anna Betts, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
Dairy farm workers typically express milk by hand from cow teats before attaching milking equipment.
—Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Other workers have chronic pain from the repetitive motions of attaching tubes to cow teats hundreds of times a day.
—Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 3 June 2024
A lot of those cattle are still alive but the hooves are burned off, the teats on their udders are burned off.
—Anna Betts, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
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“Teat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teat. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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