coañeira

Galician

From coaño (“chaff”) +‎ -eira.

coañeira f (plural coañeiras)

broom used for sweeping the chaff out the threshing floor
Synonyms: coaña, coañadeira
conical top of a haystack
Synonym: curuto
place, usually by the house, for the traditional preparation of compost; midden
Synonym: estrumeira
- c. 1850, Florencio Pol, Baixaba os calzós Xacobo:
  Xunta ó monton nun cazolo
  è dicindo “Avemaria”
  arrebolo na cañeira
  he gathers the mound in a chamber pot
  and saying "Ave Maria"
  throws it in the midden
traditional compost prepared with chaff, brushwood and dung
Synonym: estrume
trash, waste, garbage; garbage can
Synonym: lixo

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coañeira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cañeira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coañeira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coañeira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cañeira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN