ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
~ corráin, speile, grass suitable for cutting with reaping-hook, with scythe.
Is deacair fiacla a chur i gcúl corráin, [’it is hard to put teeth in the back of a reaping-hook’, to reason with a numskull.
Is fada ó d’~ an bhuain chorráin, reaping with a hook ceased a long time ago.
~ scine, corráin, tang of knife, of reaping-hook.
~ corráin, speile, scine, heel of reaping-hook, of scythe, of knife.
~ chorráin, slashing-knife converted from (old) reaping-hook.