Obs. A servant-girl employed in cooking; = COOK-MAID.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand., xl. The cook-wench and dairy-maid.
1795. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Wks., 1812, IV. 199. Thy Cook-wench soon becomes thy proper mate.
1805. Orme, Hist. Fragm., etc., & Govt. Indostan (1805), 412. The hand of an Indian cook-wench shall be more delicate than that of an European beauty.
