dairymaid
She milks cows
A dairymaid is a woman employed to milk cows and make butter and cheese.
The term belongs to an earlier era of agricultural labor, when dairy work was typically women's work done by hand: The dairymaid rose before dawn to begin the milking.
Now largely historical or literary.
Extracting animal dairy fluid
- butter churningConverting cream mechanically
- cheese makingCrafting curds from milk
- pailOpen-topped carrying vessel
- stoolBackless sitting furniture
apron · cows · barn · churn · pastoral · farm work · udder · creamery
Of countryside or clergy care
- idyllicPerfectly peaceful and charming
- TessShortened feminine name
- HardyName connoting toughness
- bucolicIdyllically rural
romantic · innocence · folk song · ballad · poetry · shepherdess · virtue · simplicity
Of a prim era
- servantOne employed to serve
- domesticOf the home
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- 18th centuryYears 1701-1800
manor · estate · peasant · working class · pre-industrial · agrarian · bonnet · traditional
milking
Extracting animal dairy fluid
- butter churningConverting cream mechanically
- cheese makingCrafting curds from milk
- pailOpen-topped carrying vessel
stool · apron · cows · barn · churn · pastoral · farm work · udder · creamery · milk pail
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
bucolic · romantic · innocence · folk song · ballad · poetry · shepherdess · virtue · simplicity · rural charm
Victorian
Of a prim era
- servantOne employed to serve
- domesticOf the home
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
18th century · manor · estate · peasant · working class · pre-industrial · agrarian · bonnet · traditional · folk life
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, farm laborer, field hand, farm hand
- femaleswoman, girl, lady, mother, daughter
- servantsbutler, servant, servants, domestics, valet
- dairy workersmilker, cheese maker, cheesemaker, pasteurizer
- commonerscommoner, commoners, peasant, peasants, common people
- medieval workersserf, peasant, villein, bondsman, thrall
dairymaidshepherd
One who tends flocks
shepherdess · swineherd · goatherd · beekeeper · field hand