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260 of a fish; de turbot [‘halibut’] aff de wi’ his , the halibut gnawed through the snell on the fishing-line with its jaws or teeth. ; 2) a cut in the end of a thwart where it is mortised, enclosing the ribs(de ), de g. o’ de . ;  — grǫn (gran-),, muzzle; lip; jaw. See ,

graniben [gran··iben·],, the jawbone of a fish, = granbein. Also [grɔn··aben·]: *granar-bein. For the first part of the see ,

granni [grani],, familiar address to a person: ''my friend! comrade!'' Partly in jest or mockery. Naa, g.! no, my friend! granni,, a neighbour, grande,

gratta [graƫa, gräƫa], and gratter [graƫər, gräƫər],, 1) very low water at ebb-tide, exposing a larger part of the foreshore than usual; 2) a large stretch of the foreshore exposed by an unusually low tide. Partly in the phrase “a (great) o’ a ebb” = a “gravin’ [grē$n$vin]-ebb”. The word is found in many different forms, besides those given: a) [graitək] ; b)  [grȯ$n., w$ƫɩ] and , [grȯ$n., w$ƫək, grȯitək, gråitək] ; [ratər] (Haroldswick, ); [rātər] (Hillswick, ); a “ratter (rater)” o’ a ebb; d), , , ; for these latter forms see further under , a digging up, “ebb by which the foreshore is, as it were, dug up.” graptar”:  of  grǫftr, grǫptr, , a digging. In  “ft, pt” has partly been assimilated to “tt”. From forms such as “graƫ-, grȯƫ-”, with  softened t, the forms “grait-, grȯit-” have later been developed. The second part of the  ( fjara, , ebb) has been dropped. Forms such as, , (and ?), as well as the forms given under d , might, however, just as well be derived from an uncompounded “grǫftr, grǫptr (greftr, greptr).”
 * c) by dropped initial g:
 * c) by dropped initial g:
 * graftar- or *graptar-(fjara). “graftar,

grav [grāv],, scrapings, a) objects loosened from the sea-bottom (by heavy swell); naet’in’ [nothing] but g. aff o’ de (sea-) boddom [‘bottom’] . b) objects (fragments of shell, ) from the stomach of cuttle-fish. c) objects floating on or under the surface of the water, driven together by the beat of waves shorewards into more or less dense masses (small molluscs; spawn; seaweed; flotsam, ), of such floating objects serving as food for fishes and birds; de g. is (is driving) on upo de shore;, 2. d) refuse. — something dug up, rooted or stirred up.  grav,, a digging; scraping together.

grav [grāv],, 1) to dig up; break up, of the sea during heavy swell: to break very heavily and deeply with ground-swell; de sea is  like “-brak” (ground-swell): mud from the sea-bottom (of agitated sea); de sea is aff o’ de boddom . 2) to bury; we ha’e been  so and so (sicc and sicc a body), we have been attending the funeral of so-and-so; In both senses now more commonly anglicised: “grave” [grēv, grē$n., w$v]; to g. a body; he is gravin’ to de very boddom (of very heavy swell). — grafa, vb., a) to dig up; b) to bury. For  1 grava,, in sense of to raise up or to agitate the sea violently
 * to ‘root up’ the sand or