Milker vs Miler - What's the difference?
milker | miler |
a dairy cow
a person who, or a machine which, milks
a conservative poker player who only raises the stakes on a good hand
an athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction )
* 1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
* 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door
As nouns the difference between milker and miler
is that milker is a dairy cow while miler is an athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction ).milker
English
Noun
(en noun)miler
English
Noun
(en noun)- But the master himself was an old Oxford miler , who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.
- The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well.