Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Girl

Girl (gẽrl) , noun

[Old English girle, gerle, gurle, a girl (in sense 1): compare LG. gor child.]

1.
A young person of either sex; a child. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
2.
A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
3.
A female servant; a maidservant. [United States]
4.
(Zoology) A roebuck two years old. [Provincial English]