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malkin
(now archaic, regional) A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern.
(now regional) A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven.
(obsolete, nautical) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
(now archaic, regional) A scarecrow.
(now rare) A cat.
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Now she was strong enough to walk and watch them circling in the sky or to sit in the arbour at the end of the long lawn and, with the sunlight smouldering in her dark-red hair and lying wanly over the area of her face and neck, watch the multiform and snow-white convolutions of her malkins.
(Scotland, Northern England) A hare.