A maid or female servant employed in cooking, or as assistant to a cook.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. ii. 179. Thou shalt lie upon thy pallat, and call to thy cook-maid, and say, dresse me that Squeeker for my breakfast.
1664. Pepys, Diary (1879), III. 75. Neither I nor anyone in my house but Jane the cook-mayde could do it.
1768. H. Walpole, Hist. Doubts, 12, note. Gloucester … discovered the Lady Anne in the dress of a cookmaid in London.
1861. M. Arnold, Pop. Educ. France, 167. Those who think that the development of society can be arrested because a farmer’s wife finds it hard to get a cookmaid.
