meadar
-air, pl. -an & -draichean, sm Small pail or circular wooden vessel. 2(AF) Milk-pail. 3 Bicker. 4 Churn. 5(AF) Measure. [The Irish meadar is of one piece, quadrangular and hollowed with a chisel, the Scottish Gael's meadar is like the lowland “luggie,” round, hooped and ansated — **]. Meadar-bleoghainn, a milk-pail; meadar-ime, a butter-pail; meadar-imideal, a pail whose mouth is covered with a skin (for any liquid); meadar-fhuail, vessel frequently fashioned out of a solid block of wood. It stood just outside the door of a dwelling-house and was used for storing urine in, which was used, when stale, for washing, on account of the ammonia it contained — W. Coast of Ross.
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