dairy maid
Farm milk worker
A dairy maid is a woman who works on a dairy farm, traditionally handling milk and making butter and cheese.
The term is old-fashioned, evoking a pastoral era before industrialized farming: The dairy maid rose before dawn to milk the cows.
Also spelled as one word: dairymaid.
- milkmaidFemale dairy worker
- churningAgitated circular motion
- butter churnDevice for solidifying cream
- butterSolid fat from cream
- fresh creamUnwhipped dairy liquid
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- dairymilk, butter, cream, cheese, yogurt
- castle staffchamberlain, chambermaid, butler, guard, handmaiden
- servantsbutler, servant, servants, domestics, valet
- medieval villagersfarmer, shepherd, peasant, villager, milkmaid
- rural women's workfarmwife, milkmaid, shepherdess, harvest worker, butter churner
- medieval workersserf, peasant, villein, bondsman, thrall
type of animal husbandry
dairy maidshepherd
One who tends flocks
shepherdess · swineherd · goatherd · beekeeper · stableman
social class in agricultural context
dairy maidlandowner
One possessing real estate
estate owner · gentleman farmer · lady of the manor · lord of the manor · squire
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