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roc

ruic, sf Anything that tangles a fishing hook. 2 Entanglement. 3 Curl, wrinkle, plait or corrugation, particularly in cloth-waulking, caused by drawing threads too tight in weaving. 4(AH) Tangle (laminaria digitata).. 5** The tops of seaweed that appear above water. 6(AF) Skate, thornback (raja clavata). 7 Fold, plait. 8(AH) Sunken, tangle-grown rock. 9(AH) Hollow, impotent or gurgling cough as that emitted by a man with with a bone or a cow with a turnip stuck in its throat. Cuiridh tu do cheann an roc, you will entangle yourself; roc aodannach, having a wrinkled face. [McL&D gives gen -a, pl. -an].

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