milsey Sc.
(ˈmɪlsɪ)
Forms: 6 milsie, 9 milcie, 9– milsey.
[Contraction of milk-sye (see milk n. 9 a). Cf. milk-sieve (ibid.: perh. an interpretative rendering of this word) and milk-sile.]
A milk-strainer.
| 1724 Rob's Jock iv. in Ramsay's Tea-t. Misc. (1775) I. 182 A milsie and a sowen-pail. 1811 W. Aiton Agric. Ayr. 451 The milk is dropped through a sieve (provincially called a milsey). |
| attrib. 1801 J. Thomson in Mod. Scott. Poets (1893) XV. 317 It minds me o' a milcie-clout Nae sooner filled than it rins out. |