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lomadh

-aidh, sm Shearing, act of shearing, shaving or making bare. 2 Plundering, act of plundering, pillaging. 3 Desolation. 4* Utter devastation, ruination. 5(MS) Rasure. 7(DMC) Process of separating the chaff from the grain to be sown by beating it with a buailtean or wooden flail. A' lomadh, pr pt of lom. 6 When the grain was hardened by the fire previous to being put into the quern to grind, it was placed in a tub and stamped with the bare feet to separate the hard inner shells of the corn; this operation was called “lomadh.” — MMcD. DMK says lomadh was performed with the flail and consisted in breaking the spikes of the barley after it was threshed. Also performed by driving a spade into a tub containing the grain, the clippings being afterwards removed by winnowing — DU.

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