A man who descends into a well and fills the bucket, when its water is little: plural مَاحَةٌ. (S.) The مَاتِح is he who draws the water from the mouth of the well. (L.)
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مَايءِحٌ (tropical:) A tooth-stick; synonym سِوَاكٌ: so called because it draws away the saliva, like as he who descends into a well ladles out the water: (L:) and so (according to some, TA) ↓مَيْحٌ. (K.)