coiléar

From Middle Irish coilér, a borrowing from Middle English coler, from Anglo-Norman coler, from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collum (“neck”).

coiléar m (genitive singular coiléir, nominative plural coiléir)

1. collar
2. (nautical) truss

• coileár

• coiléar capaill m (“horsecollar”)
• coiléar giordáin m (“yard truss”)
• coiléar madra m (“dog collar”)

coiléar m (genitive singular coiléir, nominative plural coiléir)

1. alternative form of cairéal (“quarry”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coiléar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 coilér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language