bain as

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Irish

Verb

bain as (present analytic baineann as, future analytic bainfidh as, verbal noun baint as, past participle bainte as)

  1. to take from, get from, to get out of
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 60:
      ə wuəl tū n fȧr ūd? wuələs; wȧn šē asm̥ ē.
      [An bhuail tú an fear úd? Bhuaileas; bhainasam é.]
      Did you hit that man? I did; he got it out of me .
  2. to tease, egg on, pull someone's leg
    • 1988, Mícheál Ó Siadhail, Learning Irish, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 108:
      Bíonn Ruairí ag baint astu uilig.
      Ruairí is teasing them all.
  3. to draw out, prolong
  4. to make off
  5. to gut (of fish)
  6. to draw (of fowl)
  7. to castrate (of animal)

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