Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among Australian fishermen, ground-bait.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I went to school with a girl named Kim who said her parents got the idea for the name off the Kleenex box: Kimberley-Clark.
Dale's Minute Steak 2006
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In that contree is but lytylle whete or berley: and therfore thei eten ryzs and hony and mylk and chese and frute.
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In that contree is but lytylle whete or berley: and therfore thei eten ryzs and hony and mylk and chese and frute.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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From Kim-berley to Table Bay the fame of the Knave of Diamonds had travelled, and if only one-half we heard of the man was true he had earned his title.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray
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Skippy have been pretty reliable, with a bit of berley usually bringing them on the bite.
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Skippy have been pretty reliable, with a bit of berley usually bringing them on the bite.
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Skippy have been pretty reliable, with a bit of berley usually bringing them on the bite.
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They may well be throwing political berley into the waters in order to bring on a "no!" frenzy, thus triggering a double dissolution.
unknown title 2009
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Catherine had been telling the boys to swim straight to shore now that we had started fishing (as the berley & bait may attrack sharks).
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I can berley help my little bro with his math homework.
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