milch adjective & verb. [mɪltʃ] ME.
[Repr. 2nd elem. of Old English Þrimilće May (when cows could be milked thrice daily), from Germanic base of MILK noun.]
A. adjective.
1. Of a mammal: giving or kept for milk. ME.
milch cow (a) a cow giving or kept for milk; (b) fig. (colloq.) a ready source of regular income or profit; spec. a person from whom money is easily drawn.

2. Of a woman, esp. a wet-nurse: lactating. ME-E18.

3. Milky. LME-E17.
fig.:
■ Shakespeare Hamlet The instant burst of clamour that she made..Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven.
b. verb trans. Milk. L16.

■ milcher noun an animal that yields milk E19.

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