1 (sharp) steek, catch; (sudden, sharp) twang; (as of a sting) stang; (sharp throb) stoon(d); sharp pains (especially in the bowels) grups.
2 (trouble) fash; (grief) hert-sair.
‣ painful sair.
‣ painful injury sair yin.
‣ painfully sair.
‣ causing pain sair (on): It's sair on the back.
‣ exclamation expressing pain oh-ya!, it-ye! NORTH-EAST.
‣ take pains fash.