A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family home, or in a market; domestic employee.
That which helps; anything serving to assist.
One who helps; an aide; assistant; auxiliary.
A locomotive that assists a train, usually on steep gradients.
A person employed, especially by a social services department, to perform household chores and provide aid to a patient or infirm person in the latter's own home; a carer.
The aid provided by such people.