Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The last milk drawn in milking; strippings.
- Figuratively, remaining dregs; concluding incidents or events.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural obsolete The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The last milk that is obtained when milking a cow. Often considered the poorest quality of milk.
- noun by extension the last of any substance that is of a poorer quality than the earlier substance, e.g. the
dregs of coffee.
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Examples
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Kinraid's suit consisted in being as long as possible over his milking; so never were cows that required such 'stripping,' or were expected to yield such 'afterings', as Black Nell and Daisy that night.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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Kinraid's suit consisted in being as long as possible over his milking; so never were cows that required such 'stripping,' or were expected to yield such 'afterings', as Black Nell and Daisy that night.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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This milk has been significantly styled afterings, or strippings; and should this gorged state of the tubes be permitted to continue beyond a certain time, serious mischief will sometimes occur; the milk becomes too thick to flow through the tubes, and soon produces, first irritation, then inflammation, and lastly suppuration, and the function of the gland is materially impaired or altogether destroyed.
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It were only yesterday as she aimed her leg right at t 'pail wi' t 'afterings in.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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It were only yesterday as she aimed her leg right at t 'pail wi' t 'afterings in.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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She knowed it were afterings as well as any Christian, and t 'more t' mischief t 'better she likes it; an' if a hadn't been too quick for her, it would have a 'gone swash down i' t 'litter.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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She knowed it were afterings as well as any Christian, and t 'more t' mischief t 'better she likes it; an' if a hadn't been too quick for her, it would have a 'gone swash down i' t 'litter.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
fbharjo commented on the word afterings
the last stroke
July 4, 2010