Chewing small crabs,and spitting them into the sea as bait to attract fish to the boat. (From Muirligh, to munch.)

A wave that hits a cliff & comes back out again In kind of a swell.
A forrat, where the boat is biting into the wave& is busting the wave on either side. A screw race, dicrotic wave

"Catch a crab" - when you put the oars too deep and they turn around and push you to the floor. The oar then gets trapped under the boat. Dangerious if you don't retrieve it.

Bone in the mouth, an expression for the white wash at the bow of the boat.

Stream, current, gush of water. Name for Tory Sound, which has rolling, mauling seas that has broken many boats. Rough sea caused by raised ground under the water, or by 2 currents meeting.

Woman, used as a term for a boat on Tory Island & Inis Bó Finne. There’s an expression ‘The priest has tarred the backside of his own woman.’

Female and male crab. In Iceland tarbhan is the name for a male whale, which may come from Irish missionaries.

Shears used for clipping sheep. Term for trimming the sail in bad weather.
Déan an t-éadach beag. Déanfaimid deimheas.

Shaft or ray of light. A sign for telling the weather. A ray on the wrong side of the sun is a sign of bad weather.

A partial rainbow, sign of bad weather. Hounds of the storm.
A particular type of dark cloud, standing on their feet with their heads in the air.

An awkward glancing stroke of an oar that hits the water in a way that can break the blade.

Favourable wind.

Shoulder protection. To bring a boat almost bow-on to the wave in rough seas.

Standing the tide, a children’s game to test who'll be the last to leave that rock before a big wave come up.

The flying of the nails, or popping of rivets, when the boat is under such pressure in bad seas that the boards are straining.

Between two waters, referring to when you sink a boat deliberately to seal the timbers after a hot summer when the wood has dried out, or to anything that has been swamped or sunk.

A big swell or sea. A large wave. Possibly only used on Inis Bó Finne. He always used this word Uair, uair. It's. I've never came across it anywhere else.

Boundaries delimiting beach-rights to kelp harvesting and beach-combing.

Back of a sickle, used for pulling crabs from hole.

Sheen of oil on surface of the water indicating the presense of fish.

smallest of breaking waves

Showery weather around St John’s Eve

Forecasting the weather by noticing natural phenomena.

Surface opening of a blowhole.

Measure of herring – tá ceithre bhacsóid sa chrann. Tá 6 chloch in achán bhascóid. (4 baskets to a crann. 6 stone in each basket

Net making or setting - varying the mesh depending on you put a certan number of meshes in it depending on where it was set & how it was to be gathered.

Rock ledge sloping down to sea.