gual, m. (gs. -ail).1. Coal. ~ a bhaint, to dig coal. Mianach, poll, guail, coal-mine, coal-pit. Gás guail, coal-gas. Tine ghuail, coal-fire. 2. ~ (gabha, ceárta), charcoal. ~ adhmaid, cnámh, adhairce, móna, wood-, bone-, horn-, peat-, charcoal. Loisc tú do ghual is ní dhearna tú do ghoradh, ‘you burned out your charcoal and failed to fire your metal’, you bungled matters. Rinne sé ~ de mo chroí, it seared my heart.
Chomh ~ le hairne, le bac, le cleite an fhéich, le gual, le pic, le sméar, le tóin corcáin, le Poll Tí Liabáin, as black as a sloe, as a hob, as a raven’s feather, as coal, as pitch, as a berry, as the bottom of a pot, as Erebus.