Milking's the act of removing milk from the mammary glands of an animal, typically cows (cattle) and donkeys. A rarely used term for the milking of cows's vaccimulgence, derived from the Latin words vacca ("cow") and emulgere ("to milk out"). Milking's also used to describe the removal of venom from spiders and snakes, for the production of antivenom. Cows can be milked by hand or by machine. Hand milking's performed by massaging and pulling down on the teats of the cow's udder, squirting the m… (More on Milking)