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Definition of Berrying
1. n. A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.
Definition of Berrying
1. Verb. (present participle of berry) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Berrying
1. berry [v] - See also: berry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Berrying
Literary usage of Berrying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reading-literature: Seventh Reader by Harriette Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free, Thomas Henry Briggs (1912)
"Up in the dewy sunrise, Waked by the robin's trill; Up and away, a-berrying, To
the pastures on the hill! Red lilies blaze out of the thicket; ..."
2. Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians by Robert Harry Lowie (1918)
"OLD-MAN-COYOTE AND THE berrying GIRLS.2 Two pretty girls were going around berrying.
Old-Man-Coyote got there. " Girls, what are you going round for? ..."
3. Two Years in Oregon by Nash, Wallis (1882)
"... cost—Splitting cedar boards and shingles—House-building—The China boy and the
mules—Picnicking in earnest—Log-burning—berrying-parties—Salting cattle—An ..."
4. Our Next-door Neighbor: A Winter in Mexico by Gilbert Haven (1875)
"—Mineral de la Luz.—A Mountain Nest.—Sometimes up, sometimes down. —berrying and
Burying.—The Apple-tree among the Trees of the Wood.— Off the Track. ..."
5. Country Life Readers: Second Book by Cora Wilson Stewart (1916)
"... trill A-berrying Ho! for the hills in summer ! Ho! for the rocky shade, Where
the ground pine trails 'neath the fern leaves, Deep in the mossy glade. ..."
6. American Song: A Collection of Representative American Poems, with by Arthur Beaman Simonds (1894)
"A-berrying. Down in the meadow's border-tangle, Heavy and still in the parching
heat, A little above the rugged angle Where the shadowy woods converge and ..."
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