malkin

noun6

1. •
   A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven.
2. •
   (Scotland, Northern-England) A hare.

   • There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and maukin roasting on the spit. — 1982
3. •
   (no longer used) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
4. •
   (no longer used) A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern.

   • We did but keep you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.] — 1849
5. •
   (no longer used) A cat.
6. •
   (no longer used) A scarecrow.

   • [A] straw malkin like thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on[.] — 1866