milking



aspiration, bleeding, blood-letting, broaching, cupping, drafting, drainage, draining, drawing, emptying, phlebotomy, pipetting, pumping, siphoning, sucking,

   quiff - bang, fetlock, flock, fringe, girl, quail, tuft ,

   buckle to - accept, assume, attack, attempt, buckle down, die hard, embark upon, endeavour, engage in, enter upon, fall into, fall to, go about, go at, go for broke,

   warning signal - danger sign, gathering clouds, high sign, omen, precursor, red flag, red light, skull and crossbones, stormy petrel, symptom, thundercloud ,

   glassware - appliances, dinnerware, display case, durable goods, durables, earthenware, enamelware, fixtures, flatware, glass, hard goods, hardware, hollow ware, housewares, ironmongery,

   galleys - confinement, gauntlet, hard labour, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, keelhauling, martyrdom, picketing, rack, torment, torture ,

   minority group - breakaway group, camp, caucus, division, ethnic group, faction, interest, interest group, least, minority, offshoot, party, political party, pressure group, sect,

   cauliflower ear - anvil, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, hammer, lobe, lug, shell, stirrup, tympanum, vestibule ,

   sheared - abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, bobbed, capsule, capsulized, clipped, compressed, condensed, cropped, curtailed, cut short, digested, docked, elided,

   scapegoat - burnt offering, collection, drink offering, dupe, fall guy, front, goat, gull, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice, immolation, incense, infanticide,

   end to end - adjacent, adjoining, bordering, connecting, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, endways, face to face, immediate, joined, juxtaposed, neighbour, neighbouring, next ,