v (docht) silences, checks, restrains: ní fócair nech a llá dochtair no one proclaims the day he is restrained, O'Dav. 674 . Ainmere . . . | rondacht cen dergnus dál de | Fergus mac náir Neilline, LL 132b26 . dochta[i]m `I strain, tighten, straighten', P. O'C.

? Vn. clumad .i. doch[t]ad , O'Mulc. 282 .