Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.
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- verb Present participle of
berry .
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Examples
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"Once it gets hot, the plants will stop 'berrying' and we'll be done for the season," Mathis said.
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Attract them by planting native berrying shrubs and trees, abandoning pesticides and installing special bluebird nesting boxes.
David Mizejewski: Garden for Wildlife Month Ends This Weekend David Mizejewski 2011
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I dread the straw-berrying picking party already… Ten characters?
Recording Shades of Milk and Honey, pt 2 maryrobinette 2010
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He set down the large shallow gathering basket and unslung the berrying bucket from over his shoulder, advancing warily toward the berry bush.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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I had reduced berrying this year because I moved all my winterberries right before they flowered.
Weekend garden cleanup uncovers my winterberry « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2008
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You can go berrying there when you come back and the berries are ripe.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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You can go berrying there when you come back and the berries are ripe.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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You can go berrying there when you come back and the berries are ripe.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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December may be a little more challenging for us, but there are always the evergreens and berrying plants.
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Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, and they all, like their mother, had their backs up and were fiercely spitting at me.
Walden 2004
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