Other forms: milkmaids
A milkmaid is a woman who milks cows. A dairy milkmaid, the milkmaid's stool, work as a milkmaid.
The job matters to medical history: Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who caught cowpox did not get smallpox, and that observation led to the first vaccine and eventually to the eradication of the disease altogether.
1nounmilkmaidA woman who milks cows.
“Every morning at dawn, the milkmaid carried her buckets out to the cows.”
milkmaid is a worker.
Milk plus maid. Maid is a shortening of maiden, from Old English maegden, a girl.
From milk + maid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA