Now £99.00, list price £161.68 Brabantia Lift-O-Matic Rotary Airer with Accessories.
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" Had I constructed this puzzle slightly later, my clue for HBO might well have been "'The Young 24-Across' airer.
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"Not live in the present?" for TIME TRAVEL made me think of "Doctor Who," which made me doubly mournful for the lack of "Doctor Who" in the clue for 1A ("Airer of 'Orphan Black' and 'Almost Royal'" for BBC AMERICA), although I do agree that it might have made the clue too easy for a Friday puzzle.
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Modern hanging clothes horse with pulley system An overhead clothes airer (also known variously as a ceiling clothes airer, laundry airer, pulley airer, laundry rack or laundry pulley, as well as by a number of modern trade names such as Sheila Maid, Kitchen Maid, and Pulley Maid) is a ceiling-mounted mechanism to dry clothes. In the North of England it is often known as a creel, in Scotland as a pulley, and in United States as a Sheila Maid.
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Hogan, Edmund (1910) Onomasticon Goedelicum; Dictionary of the Irish Language (1983), s.v. 1 airer (Letter A, Column 199).
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A drying rack An overhead clothes airer with pulleys There are many types of clothes horses: large, stationary outdoor ones; smaller, folding portable racks; and wall- mounted drying racks. A clothes horse is similar in usage and function to a clothes line, and used as an alternative to the powered clothes dryer. An electric alternative exists, usually known as a heated clothes airer. An overhead clothes airer can be lowered by its pulley mechanism to a convenient height for loading the wet laundry, and then hoisted out of the way to ceiling height while the clothes dry.
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Other names for this device include a clothes rack, drying horse, clothes maiden, garment donkey, drying rack, scissor rack, drying stand, Frostick, airer, or (Scots) Winter Dyke.
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The airer consists of a rack with several horizontal wooden rails or laths, suspended in two mounts or rack ends which were originally cast iron, but may be other metals or alloys today. The rack ends serve to hold and space the rails, and act as points to secure the cords that raise and lower the unit. Cords go from the metal tether points to pulleys mounted on the ceiling, and then to a cleat hook mounted on the wall. The defining feature of this airer is its pulley system.
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The airer is lowered to be loaded or unloaded, then raised to move the items up into warmer air and as out of the way of room occupants as the ceiling height allows. A pulley clothes airer is sometimes also described as "Victorian", "Edwardian", or "Lancashire" and then comprises two iron frames positioned as far apart as desired to provide a suitable length, with wooden laths, typically four or six, passed through holes in them. The frames are suspended from the ceiling by a system of rope and pulleys. The result is a hoistable rack with several parallel bars on which clothes can be draped out of the way, or hung, extending further down, with clothes hangers.
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There is still some uncertainty concerning the location of the battle. The Annals of Ulster report that "Sitriuc, grandson of Ímar, landed with his fleet at Cenn Fuait on the border [, airer] of Leinster."Annals of Ulster 917.2. No such place is known, but the Annals of the Four Masters record that the battle took place in "the valley above Tech Moling".
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It is likely that soon after these events his son Eóghan began to play a more important role, particularly because Donnchadh was growing old. Donnchadh's death can not be placed with absolute certainty, but it is possible that Donnchadh is the "Mac Somhairle" who died at Ballyshannon in 1247, mentioned in the Annals of Loch Cé: > Mac Somhairle, king of Airer-Gaeidhel, and the nobles of the Cenel-Conaill > besides, were slain.Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1247.7, available here.
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The cabinet was heated by coal, gas or wood. The Shaker community still uses these cabinets. Similar drying cabinets exist today, powered by electricity, but are intended for delicate clothing unsuitable for a powered clothes dryer, rather than for general drying. However, although the washing of laundry became mechanised and electrified in the twentieth century, even households that can afford electric clothes driers may also use a clothes airer, and its environmentally friendly qualities have led to a resurgence in its popularity, with a number of new manufacturers springing up in recent decades.
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Typical parts available commercially to assemble a pulley airerImages found by Google image search for "pulley airer" A modern development uses a wooden frame with seven to eleven continuous clothes lines which increase the capacity of the clothes horse. The frame uses a clam cleat to tighten the clothes lines and hangs on four ropes. This increases the necessary installation effort, but also improves safety by increasing redundancy of the suspension. It uses a pulley system (block and tackle) which reduces the required force to lift the loaded frame.
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99–100 & 286–289; Anderson, Early Sources, p. 277. Alex Woolf has suggested that there occurred a formal division of Dál Riata between the Norse-Gaelic Uí Ímair and the natives, like those divisions that took place elsewhere in Ireland and Britain, with the Norse controlling most of the islands, and the Gaels controlling the Scottish coast and the more southerly islands. In turn, Woolf suggests that this gave rise to the terms Airer Gaedel and Innse Gall, respectively "the coast of the Gaels" and the "Islands of the foreigners".Alex Woolf, "Age of Sea-Kings", pp. 94–95.
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The Four Masters record that after the battle the "foreigners of Ceann Fuaid" plundered Kildare, which lies about 50 km from Glynn. This led the historians John O'Donovan and Bartholomew MacCarthy to identify Cenn Fuait with Confey or Confoy, near what is today Leixlip, County Kildare, on the border between Leinster and the Kingdom of Mide.Hogan, Edmund (1910) Onomasticon Goedelicum. W. M. Hennessy believed that or airer indicated that Cenn Fuait was a headland on the coast of Leinster; but no such headland is known, and it has been objected that while can mean "coast", it also denotes the border region between two neighbouring territories.
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And when the Foreigners perceived the Cenel-Conaill watching the cavalry in their rear, they themselves rushed across the ford, so that the Cenel-Conaill were placed between both divisions. O'Domhnall was defeated, with his army; and Maelsechlainn O'Domhnaill, king of Cenel-Conaill, was slain there; and the Gilla-muinélach O'Baoidhill, and Mac Somhairle, king of Airer- Gaeidhel, and the nobles of the Cenel-Conaill besides, were slain. And many of Fitz-Gerald's army were drowned going northwards across the Finn and many of the same army were slain at Termann-Dabheog, in pursuit of the preys, including William Brit, i.e. the sheriff of Connacht, and a young armed knight who was his brother.
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The Port an Eilean Mhòir ship burial site in Ardnamurchan, with the Small Isles and Skye in the distance South of Sutherland there is considerable place name evidence of Norse settlement along the entire western coast, although unlike on the islands the settlement in the south seems to have been less prolonged and undertaken in tandem with pre-existing settlement rather than replacing it entirely. The distinction between the Innse Gall (islands of the foreigners) and the Airer Goidel (coastland of the Gael) is further suggestive of a distinction between island and mainland at an early date.Woolf (2006) pp. 94–95 In Wester Ross most of the Gaelic names that exist on the coastline today are of likely Medieval rather than pre-Norse originJennings and Kruse (2007) pp.
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