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Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla
Ó Dónaill, 1977
An Foclóir Beag
Ó Dónaill & Ua Maoileoin, 1991
English–Irish Dictionary
de Bhaldraithe, 1959
Gramadach
Foghraíocht
meabhsain
meábhuidéal
meacaic
meacan
meacanach
meacanta
meach
meáchan
meáchanlár
meá-chomhshuíomh
méad
méadaigh
méadail
méadailín
meadáille
méadaíocht
méadaithe
méadaitheach
méadaitheoir
méadal
méadalach
méadaláil
méadalán
meáchan, m. (gs. & npl. -ain, gpl. ~). 1. Weight. (a)An ~ mór, avoirdupois (weight). ~ troí, troy weight. An ~ glan, the net weight; (of vehicle) tare. Punt meáchain, a pound in weight. Tá cloch mheáchain ann, it weighs a stone. A mheáchan d’fhear, a man of his weight. Le ~ fear, by weight of numbers. ~ na mblianta, the burden of years. Titim chun meáchain, to become overweight. Thit ~ na hoibre orm, I had to do the heaviest share of the work. ~ a chur ar fhocal, to emphasize a word. Ní hé ~ a chéille a bháfas é, he is not overburdened with sense. (b) (Of element) ~ adamhach, atomic weight. (c) Meáchain agus tomhais, weights and measures. ~ a thógáil, to lift a weight. ~ a chur ar rud, to weight sth. Foireann ~, set of weights. 2. Var. vn. of meáigh. (Var: meách(t)aint f)
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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.
~ meáchan (agus tomhas), table of weights (and measures).
2. ~ (mheáchain), stone (weight).
Chuir sé an meáchan leathchéad troigh, he put the shot fifty feet.
Rinne sé céad meáchain, it made a hundredweight.
Tá cloch mheáchain ann, it weighs a stone.
Do mheáchan a ~ean ar rud, to let one’s weight fall on sth.
Meáchan, tomhas, ~, false weight, measure.
Níl ~ ná meáchan iontu, they have neither size nor weight, are only puny things.
3. ~ (mheáchain), pennyweight.
1. ~ meáchain, pound (in) weight.
Céad meáchain nó ~ air, a hundredweight or thereabouts.
Ag ~im chun feola, chun meáchain, growing fat, putting on weight.
~ meáchan, weight-lifting.
B’fhéidir nach dtógfadh an ~ fear an meáchan sin, perhaps there aren’t three men who could lift that weight.
Meáchan ~, troy weight.
Thuairimigh sé go raibh tonna meáchain ann, he estimated that it weighed a ton.
