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whort dial.|hwɜːt|
Also 6–7 whorte, 7 whurt, 9 wort.
[South-western dial. form of hurt n.2 (cf. whoam for home, whole for earlier hole, and whortleberry).]
= whortleberry. Also attrib. Hence ˈwhorting vbl. n., gathering whortleberries.
1578Lyte Dodoens vi. xi. 670 There be two sortes of Whortes, and Whortel berries, wherof the common sort are blacke, and the other are red. 1597Gerarde Herbal iii. lxix. 1231. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cxvi, Black Whorts, or Bill-Berries. 1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 12 For Fruits, they [in Cornwall] have a sort called Whurts. 1746Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 91 And why dest thee, than, tell me 'Isterday o' losing my Rewden Hat in the Rex-bush, out a whorting? 1773Encycl. Brit. s.v. Vaccinium, The myrtillus [mispr. -is], or black whortleberries or bilberries;..the cantabricum, or Irish whorts; the vitis idea, or red whorts. 1802Coleridge The Picture 4, I..now climb, and now descend O'er rocks, or bare or mossy, with wild foot Crushing the purple whorts. 1856G. Roberts Soc. Hist. Eng. 561 During the Whort-season children used to assemble to partake of Whort-pies..made with a brown crust, and eaten with clouted cream,..a west country delicacy. 1917Contemp. Rev. Nov. 582, I do mind the autumn when Mrs. Ann Pugsley did witch John Craw. 'Twur at the whort gathering. |