whinberry

English

Noun

whinberry (plural whinberries)

1. Alternative form of whimberry
   • 1798, Samuel Hull Wilcocke, A New and Complete Dictionary of the English and Dutch Languages‎^[1], London: C. Dilly, page 286:

     Whinberry, ſ. rynbezie, f.

   • 1905, chapter IV, in Arthur Granville Bradley, In the March and Borderland of Wales‎^[2], Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 94:

     […] for many miles a rank growth of whinberry bushes densely matted with heather and bog grasses holds you knee high and sometimes much more.

   • 2017 March 2, Nicholas Mansfield, English Farmworkers and Local Patriotism, 1900–1930‎^[3], Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 54:

     One example is whinberry picking, which occurred throughout the upland areas of south Shropshire: 'Whinberry picking was such an important part of the annual finance of Clun that school finished early […]