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1 get etc long in the tooth
((of a person or animal) to be, become etc, old: I'm getting a bit long in the tooth to climb mountains.) vera í sjöunda himni -
2 drag
[dræɡ] 1. past tense, past participle - dragged; verb1) (to pull, especially by force or roughly: She was dragged screaming from her car.) draga, toga2) (to pull (something) slowly (usually because heavy): He dragged the heavy table across the floor.) draga, mjaka3) (to (cause to) move along the ground: His coat was so long it dragged on the ground at the back.) dragast eftir jörðu4) (to search (the bed of a lake etc) by using a net or hook: Police are dragging the canal to try to find the body.) slæða5) (to be slow-moving and boring: The evening dragged a bit.) silast áfram; líða hægt2. noun1) (something which slows something down: He felt that his lack of education was a drag on his progress.) hindrun, dragbítur2) (an act of drawing in smoke from a cigarette etc: He took a long drag at his cigarette.) draga að sér3) (something or someone that is dull and boring: Washing-up is a drag.) leiðindapúki, leiðinlegur starfi/staður4) (a slang word for women's clothes when worn by men.) klæðnaður klæðskiptinga -
3 rabbit
['ræbit](a type of small long-eared burrowing animal, found living wild in fields or sometimes kept as a pet.) kanína -
4 rail
[reil] 1. noun1) (a (usually horizontal) bar of metal, wood etc used in fences etc, or for hanging things on: Don't lean over the rail; a curtain-rail; a towel-rail.) rimill, rið2) ((usually in plural) a long bar of steel which forms the track on which trains etc run.) járnbrautarteinn2. verb((usually with in or off) to surround with a rail or rails: We'll rail that bit of ground off to stop people walking on it.) girða af með grindum- railing- railroad
- railway
- by rail
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