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English
Etymology 1
From milk + shed, by analogy with watershed.
Noun
milkshed (plural milksheds)
- (agriculture, economics) A region producing milk that may be supplied to the area of demand with practical (competitively advantageous) speed and cost of transport.
- Counties adjoining a large city tended to supply most of its milk before highway and trucking improvements broadened the milkshed.
Etymology 2
From milk + shed, as analogous with woodshed or toolshed.
Noun
milkshed (plural milksheds)
- A shed in which animals are milked. (Contrast milkhouse, a building or portion thereof where milk is cooled and stored pending transport.)
- Coordinate terms: cowshed, milking parlor, milking parlour
Translations
a shed in which animals are milked