A girl or woman who milks cows or does other work in a dairy.
〈主古〉挤奶女工；奶场女工
Example sentencesExamples
In the seventeenth century, a milkmaid would send a stream of new, warm milk directly from a cow into a bowl of spiced cider or ale.
One could ask if the ploughman and the milkmaid of today would understand much of what is prayed.
The removal of the bowls for settling the milk and the absence of butter churns or a cow barn indicate that it was not intended as a working dairy even for a royal milkmaid.
She worked as a milkmaid on her husband Jack's milk round in Hanwell.
His father was a carpenter, bricklayer, and farmer, and his mother was a milkmaid.
Definition of milkmaid in US English:
milkmaid
nounˈmilkˌmādˈmɪlkˌmeɪd
archaic
A girl or woman who milks cows or does other work in a dairy.
〈主古〉挤奶女工；奶场女工
Example sentencesExamples
In the seventeenth century, a milkmaid would send a stream of new, warm milk directly from a cow into a bowl of spiced cider or ale.
The removal of the bowls for settling the milk and the absence of butter churns or a cow barn indicate that it was not intended as a working dairy even for a royal milkmaid.
She worked as a milkmaid on her husband Jack's milk round in Hanwell.
One could ask if the ploughman and the milkmaid of today would understand much of what is prayed.
His father was a carpenter, bricklayer, and farmer, and his mother was a milkmaid.