meitheal.
group of people employed in the same agricultural work (e.g. making hay, cutting turf)
Meaning & usage
group of people employed in the same agricultural work (e.g. making hay, cutting turf)
band of reapers
work party, gang (company of laborers)
contingent (quota of troops)
team (group of people)
Where this word comes from
From Middle Irish methel, from Proto-Celtic *metelā (“troop of reapers”) (whence also Welsh medel (“reaping party”)), from the root of *meteti (“to reap, cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”) (compare Latin metō, Czech and Polish motyka (“hoe”), English mattock.
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