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[39], stake, tree 4 12, 56 16; c. (post ?) ag leith dá toigh 1 15 n; barr na gc. (tresses?) 54 5; c.+gen. lord of 11 22, 20 10, 37 33; -reamhar 19 13.

Aithdioghluim Dána: A Miscellany of Irish Bardic Poetry, Historical and Religious, including the Historical Poems of the Duanaire in the Yellow Book of Lecan. Vol II, Translations, Notes, Vocabulary. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.

[N. 39] rod, branch; ds. 914; c. chogthach battle support 2803; c. chuinge? 2347.

Duanaire Mhéig Uidhir: The poembook of Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir, Lord of Fermanagh 1566-1589. Editor: David Greene. Translator: David Greene.

a stake, wattle, rod. In poetry mostly metaphorical: (1) tree, branch; (2) hero, warrior; (3) spear. a chleath Chaonraighe, 77 ; crann do réidchleathaidbh Raoileann, 540 ; earla cleath gclaon, 775 ; ón tír chleathruaidh, 1588 ; a chleath chró, 2239 ; glúin cleath, 2959; cleath aimríd, 3753. Compare cliath

Poems on the O'Reillys. Editor: James Carney.

(39), staff, i.e. hero, &c. 1844, 1899, 2185, 4047; stalk &c. cleatha. feadh... 272; branch, &c. deargcna cleath 4062 n; spear (or sword?) c. chaol 2309, 2547; tress, &c. earla na gcleath gceiníl 1911; glain- 272; Búill chleithgheal overhung with white branches? 1775; cleathLuighne 3065 n.

The Book of O'Hara: Leabhar Í Eadhra. Editor: Lambert McKenna S.J.

f., wattle, pole, stake, a gcleath do chur i dtalamh, ‘to put their stake into the earth,’ ‘to take up permanent residence’ (?), 6969; mar chleathaibh ceangail (‘as binding wattles,’ ‘as clinchers,’) ar an bhfál bhfírinne se, 6714; cleith, 1470

Trí Bior-Ghaoithe an Bháis: The Three Shafts of Death. Author: Geoffrey Keating. Editor: Osborn Bergin.