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whinberry en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of whimberry.
Whinberry, ſ. rynbezie, f.
1798, Samuel Hull Wilcocke, A New and Complete Dictionary of the English and Dutch Languages, London: C. Dilly, page 286: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[…]
2017 March 2, Nicholas Mansfield, English Farmworkers and Local Patriotism, 1900–1930, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 54:[…]for many miles a rank growth of whinberry bushes densely matted with heather and bog grasses holds you knee high and sometimes much more.
1905, chapter IV, in Arthur Granville Bradley, In the March and Borderland of Wales, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 94:
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