EXACT MATCHES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
ton, m. (gs. & npl. toin, gpl. ~). 1. Ling: Mus: Tone. 2. (Of colour) Tone.
PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Bheith bliain d’aois, troigh ar airde, slat ar fad, tonna meáchain, punt an chloch, to be a year old, a foot high, a yard long, a ton weight, a pound a stone.
~ unsa, tonna, quarter of an ounce, of a ton.
7. Rachadh cuid mhór acu ~ tonna, it would take a lot of them to make a ton.
~tar ina thonna é, let it be taken as a ton.
Tonna, ~ nó thairis, a ton, more or less.
Mheáigh sé tonna, it weighed a ton.
Thuairimigh sé go raibh tonna meáchain ann, he estimated that it weighed a ton.