wench
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“The word wench is definitely not something that medieval people would use for a woman, especially in public, because that was a really insulting thing to call her,” Mitchell said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2018
Other changes have elicited fewer complaints than the deleted wench auction.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2018
Bosley Crowther of The Times called her character “a selfish, ambitious, fickle wench whose tender and lovable qualities might be compared to those of a threshing machine.”
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2017
To control it, he’ll use a “sip-and-puff” device that enables him to use his breath to move the rudder and operate a wench that controls the sails.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2017
And the man took her gratefully, for she was a stout wench and good-natured, and he was a man too poor to wed except to such an one.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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