Dictionary entry

Girl

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Girl (?), n. [OE. girle, gerle, gurle, a girl (in sense 1): cf. LG. gör child.]

1. A young person of either sex; a child. Chaucer.

2. A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.

3. A female servant; a maidservant.

4. (Zoöl.) A roebuck two years old.