angleberry, anle-
[? variant of anbury, or earlier ang-berry.]
‘A fleshy excrescence resembling a very large hautboy strawberry, found growing on the feet of sheep, cattle, etc.’ Jamieson.
| a 1600 A. Montgomerie in Watson Coll. III. 13 Overgane with Angleberries as thou grows ald. 1711 Lond. Gaz. mmmmdccclxxix/4 A bushy bob Tail, and has had a little Anleberry taken off of his Breast. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 156 Warts and angle⁓berries are not uncommon excrescences upon cattle. 1914 P. MacGill Children of Dead End vi. 32 One of the horses was spavined and the other was covered with angle-berries. |