PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
~ féir, cocháin, tuí, luachra, cipíní, bundle of hay, straw, thatch, rushes, sticks.
~ (dín), line of twigs binding eaves (of thatched roof).
~ tí, wicker-work (under thatched roof) of house.
~ slinne, tuí, slated, thatched, roof.
Teach ceann tuí, thatched house.
Teach a chlúdach, to roof, thatch, a house.
~ tuí, light covering of thatch.
Tuí a chur, to lay thatch.
Chuir sé ~ ar an teach, ar na cruacha, he roofed the house, thatched the (corn-)stacks.
~ tuí, slinne, leacán, thatched, slate, tiled, roof.
~ fhéir, olla, thuí, wisp of grass, of wool, of thatch.
~ bhuin, mhullaigh, eaves, ridge, thatch.
Tá sé ag an ~ mhullaigh leis, he has it (the thatching, job of work) almost completed.
Faoi dhlaoi, thatched, covered over, hidden away.
Bain cuid den ~ díot féin, remove some of your thatch, get yourself a hair-cut.
4. ~ tuí, bundle of thatch.
~ boinn, foot-rope (of net, thatch).
3. ~ (tuí), ‘scollop’, looped stick for securing thatch.
~ an anró, ‘weather-straw’, eaves of thatch.
Níor fágadh ~ tuí ar an teach, the house was stripped bare of thatch.
Caithfidh mé ~ a chur ar an teach, I must do a bit of thatching on the house.
~ tuí, strip of thatching.
~ ceann tuí, ceann slinne, thatched, slated, house.
~ chocháin, mhuiríní, straw, bent-grass, thatch.
~ chíbe, ~ ghlas, sedge thatch.
Cur ~, (act of) thatching.