Possible Clues:

• Pause from exertion, etc
• Pause; reprieve
• Get it out of the mouth into the lough to give one some let-up
• A lull
• Infirm priest with little energy needs a break
• Pause about nastiness, perhaps
• Pause from exertion
• Pause to rest
• Period of relief (from unpleasant thing)
• Wild spree - it makes a break!