Damsel: Definition and part of speech

Damsel

  1. n. An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
  2. n. A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
  3. n. A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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