Meanings (ES + gloss)
muir • ordeñar
To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
I haue giuen Sucke, and know / How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me[…]
The farmer milked his cows.
ordeñar
To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
July 21, 1877, "The Block in the Courts" in The Spectator They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.
When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.