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- noun Plural form of
thimbleberry .
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Examples
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There were found a lot of blackberry bushes which we called thimbleberries because they were big, over 1 1/2 inches long.
The Biography of a Rabbit Roy Benson
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We picked salal berries, huckleberries, and thimbleberries.
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Your pictures and story make me want some fresh ones right now … * sigh* Have you ever had thimbleberries?
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Arm in arm with thimbleberries and bearberries, they grew wild over much of the park.
Blood Lure Barr, Nevada 2001
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Sophie and Ben led Roberto up the river-bank and around a screen of thimbleberries.
Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986
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But he returned to camp without having fired a shot, and with only a capful of thimbleberries as spoil.
Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton
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Thar's a bush 'most breakin' down with its weight of ripe and juicy thimbleberries, back of the old cedar tree.
Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton
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"And I'll pick thimbleberries for our lunch," said Phyllis, eagerly.
Stories of Birds Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
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"I thought you were to furnish the thimbleberries for lunch," he said.
Stories of Birds Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
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Prim spinsters eye him acridly, as a man given over to "shif'less" ways, and wives set him up, like a lurid guidepost, before husbands prone to lapse from domestic thrift; but the dogs smile at him, and children, for whom he is ever ready to make kite or dory, though all his hay should mildew, or to string thimbleberries on a grass spear while supper cools within, tumble merrily at his heels.
Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902
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