ABAIRTÍ
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Fear ~, money-lender, usurer; trader selling goods on interest-bearing credit, gombeen-man.
D’~ a leagan ar rud, to bring one’s mind to bear on sth.
Tá a shliocht air, ‘signs on it’, it is borne out by the result.
Tromú ar luamhán, to bear on a lever.