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  1. gearradh
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): cropping
    Usage (EN): an barra a ghearradh dhe, cut top off, to crop.
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  2. gearradh gad
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): a carping person
    Meaning or Explanation (GA): duine a bhíonn ag déanadh morán de rudaí beaga
    Usage (EN): Duine a bhíonn ag gearradh gad (sic) I gcomhnuidhe = "Chawing the rag."
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  3. gearrán
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): gelding, garron
    Usage (EN): "gearrán bán fé'n loch 7rl."
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  4. gearrchaile
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): girl
    Usage (EN): gearrachaile scoile = school girl. Ní ghlaodhfaí "gearrachaile" ar "servant girl" ach cailín aimsir "gearrachaile" applied to a grown woman in flattery.
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  5. gearrchaile
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): girl
    Usage (EN): ó bhí sí i-n-a gearrachaile = since her girlhood. ... agus í in a ghearrachille bhíodh sí tinn go minic. = often ill in her girlhood.
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  6. géaruigh
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): to make sour
    Usage (EN): Chuir sí an bainne le h-ais na tine chun é a ghéarughadh. Deineann teas bainne a ghéarughadh. = Heat makes milk sour.
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  7. geata
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): gate
    Usage (EN): geata iarrainn. geata dúbalta. "do gheataí breagh, néata ar lár" = Cill Chais.
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  8. géill
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): to submit, to yield
    Usage (EN): Ní gheillfeadh sé dá athair. = He wouldn't yield to his father. Ní ghéillfeadh sé nach aige fhéin a bhí an ceart. = He wouldn't yield but it was he was right. Bhí sé ag géilleadh da chois bhacach. = He was yielding to his lame leg.
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  9. géill
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): to yield
    Usage (EN): Ghéill sé go ndéanfadh sé gach aon rud a dúbhradh leis. = He submitted that he would do everything he was told. Ghéill sé sa déire go ndéanfadh sé d'réir mar ba thoil le n-a athair. = He yielded in the end that he would do as his father wished.
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  10. géill
    Meaning or Explanation (EN): to agree, to assent
    Usage (EN): Géilleadh dho. = to "give in" to him, to agree with him. Níor ghéilleadar dá chéile = They did not "give in" to each other. = They did not agree.
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