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Using Dwelly, MacLennan, and a list of plant names in a 1925 book of tartans (published by W.A.
Dwelly also gives fraoch-an-ruinnse for the cross-leaved heath ( E. tetralix ) which might mean `heather with the long tail,' but more probably means `heather for rinsing or scouring.
Dwelly gives a `ripple on the surface of water'; and MacLennan says, `bristles, anger, a girning expression of countenance.
Dwelly says, “See fraochan,” But fraochan can be blueberry or, cranberry,' or a fit of passion,' or part of a deer,' or the `extra toe-cap of a shoe,' This suggests the real translation is `a tapered little piece of (leather to prevent wear of the shoe by the) heather.
Dwelly set out to compile the Gaelic from all earlier dictionaries and was very successful in an encyclopedic effort; but the work would have been more useful had it an English-to-Gaelic section and provided some etymological clues as to meaning.