baint

Taking, extracting, cutting, plucking; mowing, reaping, digging. Aimsir bhaint na mónadh, the turf-cutting season. Ag iarraidh baint as a bhí siad, they were trying to get information out of him. Gan baint do sin, apart from that. Bhí sé ag baint troda asam, he was provoking me to fight. An teach a bhfuil sé ag baint faoi ann, the house he is staying in. Ag iarraidh baint faoi a bhí mé, I was trying to pacify him, to get him to be patient. Ní bheidh baint agam leis, I will have nothing to do with it. Níl baint aige dé, (i) it is no affair of his, (ii) he has no claim to it, no right to it.