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Rh (of a strong gale), and grefstur, , deep waves hollowing down, in a strong gale, as if rooting up the sea. grave,, to bury.

gravel [grāvəl],, to grope along (in the dark), to g. i’ de dark. Doubtless to dig uncertainly, not deep, gravla,   grovel, , is   grǫfla, , = grafask, to go grovelling.

gravin [grāvin],, 1) a digging; rooting up, heavy sea with ground-swell, a g. i’ de sea.  2) a burying; burial. *grafan. See ,

gräf [grä$i$f],, see ,

gre,, see ,

gred [grēd, grē$ə$d] and gre [grē (grē$ə$)],, 1) , objects of any kind, valued to their quality; disparagingly of objects of little value; we’ll see what kind o’ it is; dis is de ! this is a pretty thing (ironically).  2) implement; more : belongings, a) fishing-tackle, fishin’-g. ; . In  of hooks, snells and small lengths of line (see ,, and , ); de sea-; b) fishing-line with attachments, the collection of (certain lengths of line) belonging to a fishing long-line. In  also as a sea-term, tabu-name for a fishing long-line; ; c) pack, all that belongs to the equipment of a pack-horse, =,  ; : . 3) matter; object of a certain quality; sort; kind; a different . — : ; ;  and :  — *greið-. greida,, ordering, disentanglement; matter; means, gear, greiða and greiði,, inter alia collection of things, gear. greja,, collection of things, trifles. graith,, apparatus of any kind. greiði,, is only handed down in sense of disentanglement disentangle- ment, arrangement; entertainment. — ,

gred [grēd, grē$w$d],, to put in order, unravel, make clear, a fishing long-line: to g. de line. Now rare. greiða,, to disentangle.

greenska, greensku,, see ,

gref [græf],, 1) a grave; he is (is lyin’) in his g.; I’ll soon be i’ my g. 2) a peat-pit, de g. o’ de bank (peat-bank); see , From is reported a form  [grä$n$f] in sense 2. -peat, the first peat cut from the ledge in a peat-pit, — baggiskjump, skjumpek, skjumpin. Beside , in sense 2, the forms [grȯf] and [grøf]  are found in the , -grøf , an older for the now more common “ o’ de bank”. 3) depths of the ocean; sea-bottom; sea-term, tabu-name, used by fishermen at sea. —  grǫf,, a pit;  grov, , also of a peat-pit, = torvgrov (R.).

grefster [græfstər],, properly a digging up, but now doubtless only applied to an unusually low tide, or to the stretch of the foreshore exposed at such ebb, = , ; a -ebb. In various forms: a) :, g.-ebb: , Papa ; [gräipstər], g.-ebb: Papa; c) [græ‘mstər], a g. o’ a ebb: ,, ; d) [grɩ‘mstər, gre‘mstər], a g. o’ a ebb: , , ,  ; in  also  [grɩ‘msi], by shortening of “grimster”. — greftr and greptr, , = grǫftr, grǫptr, , a digging up; burial. With to the ending - for - in the preceding  forms,   grefstur, , a) a digging; b) deep waves
 * b) [græpstər], a