whortle bush
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
whortle bush (plural whortle bushes)
- Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium, bearing fruit known as whortleberries.
- 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, London: Peter Cole, p. 16,
- The Red Bilberry, or whortle-bush, riseth up like the [Black], having sundry harder Leaves, like the Box-Tree Leaves, green and round pointed standing on the several Branches […]
- 1882, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Christowell, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Volume 2, Chapter 4, p. 69,
- With a short breath of wonder, and a long one of delight, Rose stopped, and sat down by a low whortle-bush, with a pink frill still adorning it.
- 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke, Chapter 23,
- My course ran along by the foot of the beautiful Quantock Hills, where heavy-wooded coombes are scattered over the broad heathery downs, deep with bracken and whortle-bushes.
- 1915, Maud Doria Haviland, A Summer on the Yenesei, London: Edward Arnold, Chapter 9, p. 193,
- The bird feigned a broken wing, and Vassilli, falling into the trap, instead of shooting her at once, followed her as she dodged through the whortle bushes.
- 1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, London: Peter Cole, p. 16,
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