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

gravel [grāvəl], vb., to grope along (in the dark), to g. i’ de dark. Doubtless prop. to dig uncertainly, not deep, No. gravla, vb. Eng. grovel, vb., is diff. Cf. O.N. grǫfla, vb., = grafask, to go grovelling.

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

gräf [gräⁱf], sb., see gref, sb.

gre, sb., see gred, sb.

gred [grēd, grē^əd] and gre [grē (grē^ə)], sb., 1) collect., objects of any kind, valued acc. to their quality; esp. disparagingly of objects of little value; we’ll see what kind o’ gred it is; dis is de gred! this is a pretty thing (ironically). Fe. 2) implement; more comm. collect.: belongings, esp. a) fishing-tackle, fishin’-g. N.I.; Nm^w. (Esh.). In Esh. esp. of hooks, snells and small lengths of line (see tom, sb., and bid, sb.); de sea-gred; b) fishing-line with attachments, the collection of pakkis (certain lengths of line) belonging to a fishing long-line. N.I. In U. also as a sea-term, tabu-name for a fishing long-line; gre (Uⁿ.); c) pack, all that belongs to the equipment of a pack-horse, = bends, sb. pl.; Nmⁿ. (N.Roe): gred. 3) matter; object of a certain quality; sort; kind; a different gred. U. — gred: Fe.; Y.; Nm^{n., w}. gre and gred: U. — *greið-. No. greida, f., ordering, disentanglement; matter; means, gear, etc. Fær. greiða and greiði, f., inter alia collection of things, gear. Sw. dial. greja, f., collection of things, trifles. L.Sc. graith, sb., apparatus of any kind. O.N. greiði, m., is only handed down in sense of disentangle-

ment, arrangement; entertainment. — Cf. redskab, sb.

gred [grēd, grē^əd], vb., to put in order, unravel, make clear, esp. a fishing long-line: to g. de line. Now rare. Fe. O.N. greiða, vb., to disentangle.

greenska, greensku, sb., see grønska, sb.

gref [græf], sb., 1) a grave; he is (is lyin’) in his g.; I’ll soon be i’ my g. Conn. 2) a peat-pit, de g. o’ de bank (peat-bank); see bank, sb. comm. From Fo. is reported a form gräf [gräⁱf] in sense 2. gref-peat, the first peat cut from the ledge in a peat-pit, — baggiskjump, skjumpek, skjumpin. Beside gref, in sense 2, the forms grof [grȯf] and grøf [grøf] (Uⁿ.) are found in the compd. bakkagrof, -grøf (q.v.), an older expr. for the now more common “gref o’ de bank”. 3) depths of the ocean; sea-bottom; sea-term, tabu-name, used by fishermen at sea. U^wg. — O.N. grǫf, f., a pit; No. grov, f., also of a peat-pit, = torvgrov (R.).

grefster [græfstər], sb., 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, = gratta, gratter (q.v.); a grefster-ebb. In various forms: a) grefster: Y^h. occas., Y^b.; b) grepster [græpstər], a g.-ebb: Nm^{n., w}., Papa occas.; gräipster [gräipstər], g.-ebb: Papa; c) gremster [græ‘mstər], a g. o’ a ebb: Y^m., Y^e., Fe^w.; d) grimster [grɩ‘mstər, gre‘mstər], a g. o’ a ebb: U^wg., Fe^{e, h}., N., Wests. (W.Burr., Ai., Sa.); in Sa. also grimsi [grɩ‘msi], prob. by shortening of “grimster”. — O.N. greftr and greptr, m., = grǫftr, grǫptr, m., a digging up; burial. With ref. to the ending -ster for -ter in the preceding Shetl. forms, cf. Fær. grefstur, m., a) a digging; b) deep waves