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plural milkhouses
A building (or portion thereof) on a dairy farm where milk is collected, cooled, and stored temporarily, pending sale and shipment. quotations examples
The milkhouse should be well insulated so that a minimum amount of heat will be needed during winter.
1949, University of Wisconsin. Extension Service, Special circular
On many farms the early milkhouse and pumphouse were one. Most farmers during the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with a herd of milk cows had a milkhouse.
1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm
A place where milk is processed into products such as butter or cheese; a dairy. examples