Definitions
serving to set in motion
Word origin
From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid + -en.
Used in a sentence
“She's unmarried and still a maiden.”
“It had been customary during the whole civil war, to decapitate state criminals by the instrument called the maiden; but Montrose was condemned to a more ignominious death , by a gibbet thirty feet high”
“a surprising old maiden lady”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“First-time kind”6 letters
02“First voyage, perhaps”6 letters
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