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maide-feannaig n.m.

[maide n. + 1 feannag n.]

forms

singular

nominative

  • 1911
    Dwelly Dictionary 922 Am Maide feannaig.

genitive

  • 1957
    Gairm 20 315 Bha e cur maide-feannaig air gach ceann.

dative

plural

nominative

  • 1997
    Gairm 178 119 Theirte na maidean-feanaig ris na cabair.

senses

    • 1. A crow-stick, a stick or pole protruding from either end of the roof of a blackhouse to which the sìoman-fraoich or straw-rope is tied. See also maide-eòin n., maide-fithich n., maide-starraig n., spàrr-feannaig n.  

      • 1911
        Dwelly Dictionary 922
        Taigh […] Am Maide feannaig, (Maide starraig) stick running up through the thatch from the sparr at either end, and used as a peg round which to pass the Sìomain fraoich.
      • 1915
        Sir Seoras Uilleam Ros 
        Theirte na maidean-feanaig ris na cabair. Cha b’ ionnan mullaich nan taighean so agus mullaich nan seann taighean beaga Gaidhealach. A’n so cha robh maidean-ceangail móra, maide-droma, sparran-tarsuing, sailthean taobhanach, cabair, ceannabhaidhean, no maide-feannaig.
      • 1927
        Guthan o na Beanntaibh 216
        An dragh was a straw rope, laid longitudinally above the eaves, around which rope, the heather loops, sìomain-fraoich, were bound, prior to the fixing of the weights. […] The peg at each end of the ridge, round which the sìomain-fraoich were passed, was called am maide-feannaig.
      • 1957
        Gairm 20 315
        Mun teannte ri sgrathadh, bha e cur maide-feannaig air gach ceann a bhiodh amach ro’ na sgrathan air a bhiodh an tigh air a sgrathadh, agus a rachadh an sìoman a bhiodh a’ dol a chumail an tughaidh air mu thimcheall.
      • 1968
        Sporan Dhòmhnaill 104
        Chan fhac’ e [sc. an taigh] gréim tubhaidh | Am bliadhna no’n uiridh, | ’S bha e mi-chiatach buileach | Gus na chuireadh an seòl air; | E gun lùb mu’n mhaide-fheannaig | Gun rainich, gun chònnlaich.
      • 1972
        DASG Fieldwork Archive Uig an Iar, Lewis
        Maide-eòin, maide-feannaig | Bha na dhà againne. Ach ’se ‘maide-feannaig’ bu trice a chanadh sinn.
      • 1997
        Gairm 178 119
        Theirte na maidean-feanaig ris na cabair air gach ceann den taigh ris an robh an sìoman air a cheangal aig na cinn.

    • 2. A stick used for planting potatoes (? mis-remembered and confused with 2 feannag n. ‘lazy-bed’).