cuibheall

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• cuidheall

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots quhel, quheil (“wheel”), from Middle English whele (compare Manx queeyl and Antrim Irish cuidhil).

Noun

cuibheall f (genitive singular cuibhill or cuibhle, plural cuibhleachan)

1. (chiefly Harris, Skye, Mull) wheel

   Synonyms: cuibhle, roth

2. coil
3. spinning wheel
4. reel, yarn-windlass
5. whirl, whirling, reeling
6. cock of hay
7. circle
8. circular motion

Derived terms

• cuidheall-shnìomha f (“spinning wheel”)
• saor-chuibhleachan m (“wheelwright”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “cuibheall”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN