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whimberry local.|ˈhwɪmbərɪ|
Forms: 1 winberiᵹe, 5 wynneberie, 7 win(ne)berry, 8 wind-berry, 9 whinberry, w(h)imberry.
[Assimilated f. whinberry, alteration of winberry (representing, with normal vowel-shortening, OE. wínberiᵹe; cf. wineberry) by association with whin1.]
The bilberry or whortleberry.
a1100in Napier O.E. Glosses 132/5194 Bacciniarum, winberiᵹena. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 78 Aftur mete peeres, nottys, strawberies, wynneberies, and hardchese. 1610Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 189 Given to a wenche which brought winberries from Burneley woode, iiijd. 1611Cotgr., Morets, winne-berries, hurtle-berries. 1634–5Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) I. 131 Winberries made me subject to fainting also, and are churlish things for the stomach. 1776Withering Bot. Arrangem. 228 Blackworts... Biberries [sic]. Wind-berry. 1847Halliwell, Whimberries, bilberries. 1857Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 351 Bilberry, or Whortleberry..This elegant shrub..is sometimes called also Whinberry. 1860W. White Wrekin viii. 74 Bilberries,—wimberries, as the rustics call them. 1862Kingsley Water Bab. i, The heath was full of bilberries and whimberries. 1882Lees & Clutterbuck Three in Norway xxi. 177 Four wimberry tarts..and a venison pie. 1906Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 10/1 Bilberry..is merely the midland name for the bleaberry of the North, the whortleberry of the West, and the whinberry of the Welsh Border. |