gabháil

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  1. f., vn. of gabhaim, in all its meanings; act of taking, 207; of taking (leave, ceada), 3724; of going (round, timcheall), 7017; of crossing (a bridge), 9163); of beating upon (do, of a storm), 2561-4; of piercing (i), 2613; of removing (from, ó), 6715; of putting clothes (on, um), 7054, etc.; [with peculiar syntax, ar ngabháil fheirge an tighearna, ‘iratus dominus,’ ‘the lord being angry,’ 6270; iar ngabháil mhachtnaidh na súile ‘when the eyes have been dazzled’ (stupentibus oculis), 8344, as if tighearna and súile were accusatives governed by the preceding phrase; one would expect don tighearna and dona súilibh];  gen. –ála, féil ghabhála Mhuire i mbroinn, ‘feast of the Conception of the Virgin,’ 3269
  2. f., leaven, 7754; gen. –ála, 8910

Trí Bior-Ghaoithe an Bháis: The Three Shafts of Death. Author: Geoffrey Keating. Editor: Osborn Bergin.