milking parlour
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editmilking parlour (plural milking parlours)
- (British spelling) A large room (in a barn) designed for the mechanical milking of cows.
- Coordinate term: milkshed
- 2004, Albert Meijering, Automatic Milking: A Better Understanding, page 35:
- Two North American models (Rodenburg 2002, Rotz et al., 2003) suggest that on large farms, as the hours of use of large automated milking parlours increase, their relative economic advantage over AM-systems increases.