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blackberry|ˈblækbɛrɪ|
1. The fruit of the bramble (Rubus fruticosus) and its varieties. This being almost the commonest wild fruit in England is spoken of proverbially as the type of what is plentiful and little prized.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker Voc. 139 Flaui, uel mori, blaceberian. c1250Gloss. ibid. 558 Murum, blakeberie. c1350Will. Palerne 1809 Blake-beries þat on breres growen. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 4715 He settethe not therby a blakberie. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. iii. viii. (Arb.) 172 Bramble busshes bearynge blacke berries or wylde raspes. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 265 If Reasons were as plentie as Black-berries, I would giue no man a Reason vpon compulsion. 1713Gay Past. vi, Blackberries they pluck'd in deserts wild. 1852Gard. Chron. 3 A real novelty..in the form of what is called a White Blackberry.
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1578Lyte Dodoens vi. iv. 661 The Bramble or Blacke berie bushe. 1580Baret Alv. B 1111 Bramble, the blacke bery tree. 1846Sowerby Brit. Bot. (1864) III. 164 Who..has not in his day, been a Blackberry-gatherer? 1847Halliwell Dict., Blackberry summer, the fine weather..at the latter end of September and the beginning of October, when the blackberries ripen. Hants. 1880Besant & Rice Seamy Side xxiii. 290 ‘Real jam, blackberry-jam.’
2. The trailing shrub which bears this fruit; the bramble.
1579Langham Gard. Health (1633), Bramble breer or Blackberry. 1688R. Holme Acad. Armorie ii. 119 Spinous or thorny shrubs..Bramble, Blackberry, Rose. 1849M. Somerville Phys. Geog. II. xxvi. 163 Of the seven species of bramble which grow at the Cape, one is the Common English bramble or blackberry.
3. Now, in the north of England and south of Scotland, the Black Currant (Ribes nigrum), the ‘blackberry’ of sense 1 being there called ‘Brambleberry’; formerly in some localities the Bilberry, or Blaeberry; also, according to some, but perhaps erroneously, the sloe or fruit of the Blackthorn.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest, The blackberie tree is after his sort bushy bearing that fruite that eftsones refresheth the Shepherde. 1597Gerard Herbal (1633) 1417 We in England [call them] Worts, Whortleberries, Black-berries, Bill⁓berries. 1721Bailey, Black-berries..the Berries of the Black-thorn. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) ii. Vaccinium, a blackberry, as some say. 1852Gard. Chron. 54 In speaking of blackberries about Kelso, black currants are understood. 1885Scot. Border Rec. 6 June, The red currant and blackberries have suffered somewhat. |