nanberry, -bury
dial. varr. of anbury.
| 1707 Lond. Gaz. No. 4325/4 A dark brown Gelding.., full aged, a Nanberry on the inside of the near Leg. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words used in Neighbourhood of Whitby 129/1 Nanberries, s. pl. warty spots on the groin of a horse. 1883 A. Easther Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield 90 Nanberry or Nanbury, sb. a kind of wart formed on the bag of a cow. 1970 ‘J. Herriot’ If only they could Talk xxv. 152 They [sc. horses] did get those little dangling growths sometimes—nanberries, the farmers called them. 1973 ― Let Sleeping Vets Lie xiii. 113 Oh, and Mr. Ross said would you take some nanberries off a stirk's belly while you're here. |