Example sentences for: dwelly

How can you use “dwelly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dwelly also gives fraoch nam curra bhitheag without translation.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.


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