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Whimberry. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whimberry local. Forms: 1 winberiʓe, 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. wínberiʓe; cf. WINEBERRY) by association with WHIN1.] The bilberry or whortleberry.

1 a. 1100.  in Napier, OE. Glosses, 132/5194. Bacciniarum, winberiʓena.

2 c. 1460.  J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 78. Aftur mete peeres, nottys, strawberies, wynneberies, and hardchese.

3 1610.  Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 189. Given to a wenche which brought winberries from Burnley woode, iiijd.

4 1611.  Cotgr., Morets, winne-berries, hurtle-berries.

5 1634–5.  Brereton, Trav. (Chetham Soc.), I. 131. Winberries made me subject to fainting also, and are churlish things for the stomach.

6 1776.  Withering, Bot. Arrangem., 228. Blackworts…. Biberries [sic]. Wind-berry.

7 1847.  Halliwell, Whimberries, bilberries.

8 1857.  Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., III. 351. Bilberry, or Whortleberry … This elegant shrub … is sometimes called also Whinberry.

9 1860.  W. White, Wrekin, viii. 74. Bilberries,—wimberries, as the rustics call them.

10 1862.  Kingsley, Water Bab., i. The heath was full of bilberries and whimberries.

11 1882.  [Lees & Clutterbuck], Three in Norway, xxi. 177. Four wimberry tarts … and a venison pie.

12 1906.  Westm. 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.

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