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  1. crios
    Ciall nó Míniú (BÉARLA): belt (on sheaf of corn), but a soldier's belt is beilt.
    Tuilleadh
  2. cró críoch
    Ciall nó Míniú (BÉARLA): finishing touch (on work)
    Sampla(í) Úsáide: an cró críoch a chur air.
    Tuilleadh
  3. crosta
    Ciall nó Míniú (BÉARLA): bold, ill-mannered (of children)
    Sampla(í) Úsáide: bó chrost', a "wicked" cow.
    Tuilleadh
  4. cruach Pháraic
    Ciall nó Míniú (BÉARLA): broad-leaved plantain
    Tuilleadh
  5. crúbach
    Ciall nó Míniú (Gaeilge): casúr crúbach a bhíos ag gabha.
    Tuilleadh
  6. crupaim
    Ciall nó Míniú (BÉARLA): shrink
    Sampla(í) Úsáide: crupaim is intransitive and is differentiated from crapaim above, which is transitive and means 'to contract, retract, withdraw': a' crupadh le aois, shrinkin with age; tá na nóiníní a' crupadh isteach leis a' driúchta, the daisies are closing up under the dew. The two participles are combined to form one of those 'twin' constructions which are so expressive and common in the dialect: crupthaí crapthaí, strangled and bent under weight of curach carrying it up on to the shingle beach
    Tuilleadh
  7. cruthú
    Ciall nó Míniú (BÉARLA): act of arguing
    Sampla(í) Úsáide: beirt a' cruthú ar a chéilí, two trying to put each other down in argument
    Tuilleadh
  8. cruthú
    Ciall nó Míniú (BÉARLA): rich feeding quality (in land)
    Sampla(í) Úsáide: tá árd-chruthú ann, there is great feeding in it; beidh a' cruthú sa bhfairsingeacht, there is always good return, good grazing, from a wide extensive scope of land
    Tuilleadh

  9. Ciall nó Míniú (BÉARLA): greyhound
    Tuilleadh
  10. cuaille bata
    Ciall nó Míniú (Gaeilge): ceann maith mór
    Tuilleadh

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