PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Bearrtha go ~, completely shorn.
~ fiartha, shearing force.
Caora a ~adh, to shear a sheep.
~ caorach, sheep-shearing.
Is mó an torann ná an ~ (mar a dúirt an chaora leis an ngabhar a bhí á lomadh), much cry and little wool (as the sheep said of the goat being shorn).
~ scealptha, pinking shears.
~ fiartha, lúbtha, shearing-, bending-, stress.