English

Alternative forms

• milk-house

Noun

milkhouse ‎(plural milkhouses)

1. A place where milk is processed into products such as butter or cheese; a dairy.
   • 1949, University of Wisconsin. Extension Service, Special circular:

     The milkhouse should be well insulated so that a minimum amount of heat will be needed during winter.

   • 1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm:

     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.