Kitchen maid

Kitchen maid is a term with a variety of meanings.

Great house kitchen maid

A kitchen maid is a young maid, or junior female servant. In the hierarchy of a great house she ranked below a cook and above a scullery maid. An experienced kitchen maid is an assistant cook; the position may be compared to that of a line cook in a professional kitchen.

The kitchen maid reports to the Head Cook, if there is one.

Her uniform may consist of a blouse and a skirt, and apron.

Kitchen Maid Pulley Airer

A Kitchen Maid, sometimes Kitchen Maid Pulley Airer, is a ceiling mounted clothes and laundry airer

The unit is a multiple horizontal wooden railed device with two ends, originally cast iron, both separating the rails and acting as points to secure the cords that raise and lower the unit. Cords go from the metal tether points to pulleys mounted on the ceiling, and then to a cleat mounted on the wall.

It is lowered to be loaded or unloaded, then raised to move the items up into warmer air and as out of the way of room occupants as the ceiling height allows. Often known alternatively in the North of England as a creel.