ABAIRTÍ
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.
~ cloiche, meáchain, oird, stone-, weight-, hammer-, throwing.
~ (meáchain), hundredweight.
Tá ~ cloiche meáchain ann, it weighs a quarter of a stone.
Rinne sé céad meáchain, it made a hundredweight.
Punt meáchain, a pound in weight.
Titim chun meáchain, to become overweight.
Meáchain agus tomhais, weights and measures.
1. ~ meáchain, pound (in) weight.
Céad meáchain nó ~ air, a hundredweight or thereabouts.
Ag ~im chun feola, chun meáchain, growing fat, putting on weight.
Thuairimigh sé go raibh tonna meáchain ann, he estimated that it weighed a ton.