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lútaí rón
seal's flippers
ceannruán
See Éigse vi, 37, for description. This I take to be the common goby; cf. Larousse: gobidés . . . osseux, de petite taille, avec une grosse téte, des yeux plus ou moins saillants, des nageoires pelviennes. Young lads in Tóin na hOltaí collect them in buckets to feed cats: íosaidh na cait iad.
seánadh
see taisbeánadh infra.
saighdiúaí
seed-heads and stems of narrow-leaved plantain (slánlus)
baint
tá mé baintí as mo mheabhair set crazy, driven daft
tuit
fan go dtite siad, wait till they settle down (before you go head them) - said of freshly made cocks of hay. settle
cloch fhaobhair
c. aoil, lime-stone; c. ghlas, schist or quartz; c. bhreac, granite; c. gheal, white , metamorphosed rock, ach gan a ligean (isteach) i n-aon bhildáil (i ngeall ar) phisleógaí sharpening stone
seid
shed
scoradh
tá an t-arbhar a' scoradh .i. an grán a' titim de shedding
trathailte
thainic sé isteach bog báite is é trathailtí. shivering wet
cluiche
cluife gliomach i mbárr an uisce (agus an-torann á dhéanamh acú leis) na crúbaí shoal
múr
shower
ráig
shower, one shower after another
cnap
go mbeidh crapaíl tráthnónaí agus toirní shower; plur. in -aíl
crupaim
crupaim is intransitive and is differentiated from crapaim above, which is transitive and means 'to contract, retract, withdraw': a' crupadh le aois, shrinkin with age; tá na nóiníní a' crupadh isteach leis a' driúchta, the daisies are closing up under the dew. The two participles are combined to form one of those 'twin' constructions which are so expressive and common in the dialect: crupthaí crapthaí, strangled and bent under weight of curach carrying it up on to the shingle beach shrink