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Webster 1913 Edition


Afterings

Aft′er-ings

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Noun.
pl.
The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
[Obs.]
Grose.

Definition 2024


afterings

afterings

English

Noun

afterings pl (plural only)

  1. The last milk that is obtained when milking a cow. Often considered the poorest quality of milk.
    All that was left in the cow were the afterings.
  2. (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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