whinberry

English

Noun

whinberry (plural whinberries)

  1. Alternative form of whimberry
    • 1798, Samuel Hull Wilcocke, A New and Complete Dictionary of the English and Dutch Languages‎, London: C. Dilly, page 286:
      Whinberry, ſ. rynbezie, f.
    • 1905, chapter IV, in Arthur Granville Bradley, In the March and Borderland of Wales‎, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 94:
      […] for many miles a rank growth of whinberry bushes densely matted with heather and bog grasses holds you knee high and sometimes much more.
    • 2017 March 2, Nicholas Mansfield, English Farmworkers and Local Patriotism, 1900–1930‎, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 54:
      One example is whinberry picking, which occurred throughout the upland areas of south Shropshire: 'Whinberry picking was such an important part of the annual finance of Clun that school finished early […]
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