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Sainmhínithe

plank (long, broad and thick piece of timber)

feminine

Coibhéisí

Samplaí

“Bhí plainc trasna ar an pholl ⁊ bhí mada mór milteach dubh, ar a robh slabhra iarainn ceangailte, leath-bhealaigh ar an phlainc. Nuair do chuir an bhuachaill a chos ar an phlainc, le dul⟳ tar⟳ an pholl, lúb sí síos san uisge, ar mhodh go robh an t‑ógánach ar tí bheith báithte, gur rinne sé é féin do choisreagadh, ⁊ ar an móimid d’éirigh an phlainc cómh daingean le Gaigeán, ⁊ léim an mada dubh síos ’san pholl as a bhealach.”

There was a plank across the pool, and a large, fierce black dog, to which a chain was fastened, half-ways on the plank. When the boy put his foot on the plank to cross the pool, it bent down into the water, so that the youth was on the point of being drowned, till he crossed himself; and in a moment the plank became as firm as Gaigean, and the black dog jumped down into the pool out of his way.

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