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to be bound(ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of))
Bhí an long ag triall ar Meiriceá.
The ship was bound for America.
to go for, go to get or fetch(generally after another verb of going, such as téigh)
1906, Christian Brothers, Graiméar na Gaedhilge, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, p. 256:
Téigh ag triall ar an gcapall.
Go for the horse.
1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:
Fe dheire do bhí ar an gcaptaen a sheólta a thógaint suas agus dul go dtí dúthaigh éigin ag triall ar lasc [sic; lasta] eile.
Finally the captain had to hoist his sails and go to some country for another cargo.