mulke
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editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English mulke, melke, from Old English melcan, meolcan.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmulke (simple past multh)
- to milk
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Mulke a beasthes.
- Milk the cows.
Related terms
edit- mulk (“milk”)
References
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 57