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maide-starraig n.m.

[maide n. + 1 starrag n.]

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singular

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    • 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-feannaig n., maide-fithich 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.
      • 1966
        DASG Fieldwork Archive Uig, Lewis
        Maide-starraig | spar sticking up out of the end of the house. It was really a big peg round which the ‘sioman’ for the end of the house was put.
      • 1976
        Gàidhlig ann an Albainn 29
        Nan ainmicheadh e [sc. sgoilear] a h-uile clach is bioran bho thòisicheadh e air cùl an tallain gus an ruigeadh e an toll-innearach agus a mach troimh ’n tughadh, […] gus an suidheadh e air a’ chorra-thulchainn/maide fithich/maide starraig, bha e ri cur na Gàidhlig gu feum a réir an àite agus an obair a thugadh dhi am foghlum. 
      • 2014
        Casan Searraich 21
        Cha robh an coileach fada air an tobht gus na dh’fhidir sinn e a’ gluasad agus a’ dol air a chasan. […] Thòisich e a’ sporghail air a shifeadh, suas an tughaidh gus na ràinig e am maide-starraig.