干る

Meanings

1. Ichidan verb, Intransitive

   to dry (up); to become parched
2. to ebb; to recede

Forms

• 潮しおの干ひた時ときに砂浜すなはまを歩あるきました。

  I walked along the beach when the tide ebbed.

• 私わたしと、同僚どうりょうとが、山やまの崖がけっぷちに立たっている小屋こやに等ひとしい二間にけんの家いえーー二間にけんと云いっても、上のぼり口ぐちと、その次つぎと、六ろく畳たたみに二に畳たたみの家いえに住すんでいた。食たべるものは、芋いも、干魚ひぎょ、豆腐とうふ、寒さむい山の上なので、冬ふゆになると芋いもが凍こおっている。

  Me and my colleagues lived in a small 2 room cabin built on the edge of a cliff on the mountain. I say 2 rooms, but besides the entrance, there was a 6 by 2 tatami room. We ate potatoes, dried fish and tofu. Because we were on the top of a cold mountain, the potatoes would freeze during the winter.