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maide

-an & -achan, sm [** f]. Wood, timber. 2 Stick. 3 Staff, cudgel. Cas mhaide, a wooden leg or shaft; cha mhaide balachain do shleagh, your spear is no boy's staff; ged bhiodh na trì gill san aon mhaide, if I had three engagements, I would fly to succour you — (lit. were there three wagers on one stick) — in allusion to the old style of keeping a score by nicks on a stick, by those who could not write; tha an t-àm cur anns na maidean, it is time to be starting (lit. to put [motion] into the sticks, i.e. the oars).

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