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giarrey1 (=Ir. gearradh) abbreviate, abridge, axe, beat out, carve, castrate, circumcise, cleave, clip, condense, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, dissect, erupt, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, intersect, lance, levy, lop, mark out, prune, sever, shear, sink, slash, slicing, slit, snip; cut off: Ny jean-jee giarrey jeh sluight kynney ny Kohathiteyn, veih mastey ny Leviteyn Bible; (as words) clip: Nagh vaik oo dy vel dy chooilley hushtey ymmyrçhagh soit sheese ayns focklyn giarrey? CS; (as tail) crop; curtailment; diarrhoea; abridging, condensing, nicking, pruning, reaping; section [O.Ir. gerraid]
giarrey jeh amputate, amputation, apocope, chop off, cut off, deduct, snip off, strike off: As loayr y Chiarn rish Moses, as rish Aaron, gra, Ny jean-jee giarrey jeh sluight kynney ny Kohathiteyn, veih mastey ny Leviteyn. Bible
giarrey magh cut out, excise office, excision, exclude, punch out: Ta shoh giarrey magh ourys erbee. DF
ayns focklyn giarrey in brief, in short, in summary: Ta mee hannah er n'insh dhyt nagh vod eh ve, nagh nhegin da ve; ayns focklyn giarrey, cha lhiggym da. JJK
abbreviate (v.) aagherrey, giarrey, girraghey
amputation (n.) giarrey jeh
beat out (v.) giarrey; lheanaghey
buttonhole2 (n.) giarrey beg
castrate (v.) giarrey, spoiy, spoiyaghey
channel (n.) ammyr: It was a Manxman who discovered the channel to Liverpool - She Manninagh ren feddyn magh yn ammyr gys Lerphul. DF idiom; barrey; bollagh; clash; clasheen; feddan; keyllys; piob; (v.) giarrey clasheen; giarrey saaue
curtailment (n.) giarrey
cutting bangan; foyragh; geyre; giarrag; giarree; peesh; sharroo; slissag; giarrey: Knife for cutting bread - Skynn chum giarrey arran. DF idiom
section (n.) ayrn, fo-rheynn, gasrey, meer, olt; rheynn: Section of a store - Rheynn jeh shapp. DF idiom; giarrey: Conic section - Giarrey cughlinagh. DF idiom
slit fosley; giarrey; scoltey: He slit her throat - Ren eh scoltey y scoarnagh eck. DF idiom; scoltit; speiltagh; (n.) giarrey saaue
cut off (v.) giarrey jeh; immeeaght roish; castey: They cut off the water - Ren ad castey yn ushtey. DF idiom; giarrey: Cut off the electricity - Yn lectraghys y yiarrey. DF idiom; giarit ersooyl: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth - ta’n ynrickys er jerraghtyn, as giarit ersooyl veih’n veeal oc. Bible
uncircumcised1 (n.) gyn giarrey chymmylt; (npl.) (the); (ny) chymmyltee
dysentery (n.) buinnagh mooar, chingys mooar y yiarrey, giarrey folley; (yn) gorley gastey; (yn) keckey shooyl
trim arraghey; baarey beg; cormaghey; giarrey beg; jesh; jeshaghey; jeshey; skeiogh; stuitt; stuittey
axe (v.) giarrey; (n.) teigh: and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree - as tra ta e laue coyrt builley lesh y teigh dy lhieggal y bil Bible
cut away (v.) giarrey; giarit ersooyl: who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand - ta ass cooinaghtyn, as ta giarit ersooyl veih dty laue Bible
cut up (v.) buinnit: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire - myr drineyn buinnit bee ad er nyn lostey ’syn aile Bible; giarrey
furrow (n.) craplag, furrey; creagh: The first furrow - Yn chied chreagh. DF idiom; (v.) cur furrey ayn, giarrey ny tonnyn, traaue
hack breb 'sy lurgey, broillaghey; broilley; cabbyl markee, garran; giarrey, speiy; goll er cabbyl faillit
hew (v.) scoltey, speiy; (to); (dy) yiarey; cummey: Hew out a statue - Jalloo y chummey. DF idiom; lhieggey: Hew down a tree - Billey y lhieggey. DF idiom; giarrey: Hew out a passage - Cassan y yiarrey. DF idiom
in short (adv.) gyn arragh y raa, gyn arragh y ghra; ayns focklyn giarrey; ayns beggan focklyn: I'll tell you in short - Inshym dhyt ayns beggan focklyn. DF idiom
pace bieauid: Gather pace - Bieauid y hroggal. DF idiom; colheimyragh; keim: At a walking pace - Er keim hooyl. DF idiom; keimyragh; kesmad; lurgey; (v.) giarrey y vieauid da, kesmadey, shooyl; coskeim
scallop (n.) camoge, craghan, scolb; roagan: The scallop closed itself - Ren y roagan dooney. DF idiom; (v.) giarrey ayns camogeyn, scolbey; gaaig
shear buinn; giarrey: Shear off a branch - Banglane y yiarrey. DF idiom; loamrey; loamyr; lommyrt, lhommyrt
sink cur fo; deayrtal; giarrey; glenney; injillaghey; reurey; sinkeil; slogragh; (n.) towl toarrey; traih; meilley-niee
slice (v.) giarrey ayns slissagyn, jannoo slissagyn jeh, slissaghey, slissey; (n.) sliss, sliss-vuilley; shlissag, slissag: Slice of bread - Slissag arran. DF idiom
bwoallit beaten, sounded: coyrle shoh clashtyn y bun jeh boirey dy liooar: y doilleeid jeh goll tessyn raad gaueagh, lectraghys goll er giarrey voish thie ennagh, guilley va bwoallit dy holk ec armee Hostyn. Carn
caghlaaee alternative, changeable, changing, volatile: cha nel thieyn goll er aa-yeshaghey roish my jig tannyssyn noa stiagh, as ta shen giarrey sheese y traa-caghlaaee. BS
coarys-coadee protection system: Dooyrt yn Ard-Reiragh Mike Proffitt dy ren coarys-coadee ayns Blackpool ayns Sostyn giarrey yn lectraghys, er y fa dy ren eh gaghtey ny smoo tappee na'n coarys-coadee ayns Mannin tra haink foill rish ayn BS
cur lhiettrimys er ban, block, circumscribe, disqualify: My vees ad cur lhiettrimys er giarrey fammanyn quallianyn sy Reeriaght Unnaneyssit, oddagh y red cheddin taghyrt ayns Mannin. BS; handicap; head off
foldyragh scythe: Va'n arroo giarrit ec ny mraane lesh corranyn agh ny keayrtyn va ny deiney giarrey eh lesh y yiarn foldyragh. MB
gear (=Ir. geur) sour, stale: Ta Eleanor er jeet thie dy gheddyn meddyr dy vainney gear as bonnag dy arran corkey dy chur lhee gys ny fir va giarrey yn arroo Dhoor; sharp; spicy; laugh: Ny gear urree. JJK
meddyr (f.) mug: Ta Eleanor er jeet thie dy gheddyn meddyr dy vainney gear as bonnag dy arran corkey dy chur lhee gys ny fir va giarrey yn arroo Dhoor
speiy (f.) bill, billhook, hoe, mattock, pick; (v.) hack, hew: Agh ta shen cur cooinaghtyn orrym nagh vel mee er chur jerrey er rourey, ny er giarrey yn faiyr, ny er speiy ny sarkyllyn as ymmodee reddyn elley. Dhoor
cleave (v.) giarrey, scaaney, traaue; lhiantyn; lhiantyn da: The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee - Ver y Chiarn er y chramp dy lhiantyn dhyt B ible; lhiantyn gys: But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God - Agh shiuish ren lhiantyn gys y Chiarn nyn Yee Bible; lhiantyn huggey: there shall no such cleave unto me - cha jean veg nyn lheid lhiantyn hym Bible; lhiantyn rish: and cleave unto the remnant of these nations - as lhiantyn rish fooilliagh ny ashoonyn shoh Bible; scoltey: And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof - As nee eh scoltey eh lesh e skianyn er Bible; taah
cut baarey; beam; beamey; buinn; collag; giarreen; giarey, giarrey; grainney; injillaghey; jeeig; oght; slish-woalley; slissey; giareit; vuinn; (to); (dy) ghiarrey; giarit: I must get my hair cut - Shegin dou geddyn m'olt giarit. JJK idiom; giar: Please cut my hair, too - Giar m'olt neesht, my sailliu. JJK idiom
cut out (v.) giarrey magh; giarit ass: but the froward tongue shall be cut out - agh bee yn chengey vee-reiltagh giarit ass Bible; cleiyt: Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands - Er-lhiat dy row clagh cleiyt fegooish laueyn Bible; (n.) scarreyder
edge1 (v.) cur beeal er; cur oirr er; geyraghey; giarrey ny h-oiryn jeh; (n.) cor; dreeym; chemmal; foyr: with the edge of the sword - lesh foyr yn chliwe Bible; oirr: in the edge of the wilderness - rish oirr yn aasagh Bible; scain; slyst: in the edge of the land of Edom - er slyst cheer Edom Bible
sever (v.) giarrey; (shall) scarree: and sever the wicked from among the just - as scarree ad yn vee chrauee veih mastey yn chloan chairal Bible; scarrey: And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel - As nee’n Chiarn scarrey eddyr maase Israel, as maase Egypt Bible
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