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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Milk \Milk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milked}; p. pr & vb n.
{Milking}.]
1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of by the
hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of ``Milking the
kine.'' --Gay.
I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love
the babe that milks me --Shak.
2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk;
as to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
3. To draw anything from as if by milking; to compel to
yield profit or advantage; to plunder. --Tyndale.
They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as
regularly as a dairyman does his stock. --London
Spectator.
{To milk the street}, to squeeze the smaller operators in
stocks and extract a profit from them by alternately
raising and depressing prices within a short range; --
said of the large dealers. [Cant]
{To milk a telegram}, to use for one's own advantage the
contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]
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