fairmaid noun3 •A smoked or salted pilchard.Now the salted pilchards, known as fairmaids, were washed in a kieve, or huge wooden tray having a grating in the bottom through which the fish scales could drop. — 1988 •A mermaid from a blackwater creek or river.I go down to the punt-trench and I beg the water people. Help me, I say. I throw eggs — fresh eggs — in the black water. It was to feed the fairmaids. — 1978 •Synonym of snowdrop.Fairmaid is a soft pink flower, very pleasing. — 1903 formsfairmaids
