The Collaborative International Dictionary
maukin
Malkin \Mal"kin\, n. [Dim. of Maud, the proper name. Cf. Grimalkin.] [Written also maukin.]
Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.
--Chaucer.A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.
A scarecrow. [Prov. Eng.]
(Mil.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
Wiktionary
maukin
n. (context Scotland English) (alternative form of malkin English)
Usage examples of "maukin".
See, here a maukin, there a sheet, As spotless pure, as it is sweet: The horses, mares, and frisking fillies, Clad, all, in linen white as lilies.
A rare eye, too, is his at the setting of a springe for woodcocks, or tracking a maukin on the snow.