A female servant employed in a kitchen, usually under the cook.
1550. Bale, Votaries, II. N iv. The king toke al their wiues, otherwise called their kichine maides … and put them all in the tower of London.
1675. Wood, Life, 31 March, II. 311. Disinherited … because debauched and married his kitchin maid.
1892. Mrs. Oliphant, Cuckoo in Nest, II. xxv. 133. The dinner, which an eager kitchen-paid … had the charge of.
