Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as whortleberry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The whortleberry, or bilberry.

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  • noun archaic The whortleberry or bilberry.

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Examples

  • Imagine their amazement when, instead of being roasted, they were taken into a lodge and treated to a kind of whortle-berry pudding _à la sauvage_!

    French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson

  • His brothers and cousins laid him softly on a bank of whortle-berries, and just rode back to the lonely hamlet where he had taken his death-wound.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Hout, it will just be to get crane-berries, or whortle-berries, or some such stuff, out of the moss, to make the pies and tarts for the feast on

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • Broken-girth-flow, a territory which, since the days of Adam, had borne nothing but ling and whortle-berries.

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • I see her swift foot dash the dew from the whortle, 5

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • About it stood fir-trees, short and bent, and its sides were steep and clothed with harts-tongue and shrubs of whortle-berry.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • About it stood fir-trees, short and bent, and its sides were steep and clothed with harts-tongue and shrubs of whortle-berry.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Thus she traveled three days together, having nothing to eat or drink but water and green whortle-berries.

    Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

  • There were May flowers, violets and anemonies, in spring time; box, whortle, and black berries, in summer, and acorns and walnuts in autumn.

    No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey Various

  • The ground sloped upwards after a while, and he tore up the incline, breathing deep and hard; down into a shallow valley, leaping gorse bushes, crashing through whortle and meadowsweet, stumbling over peat-cuttings and the workings of forgotten tin-mines.

    Uncanny Tales Various

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