wineberry
(ˈwaɪnbɛrɪ)
Forms: 1 winber(i)ᵹe, 3 winberi, erron. wind-, 6 wynberry. β. 6 wyneber(r)y, 7– wineberry.
[OE. w{iacu}nberiᵹe = OS. wînberi, OHG. wînberi (MHG. -ber(e, G. weinbeere), ON. v{iacu}nber (cf. Goth. weinabasi): see wine n.1, berry n.1 ME. wĭnberi normally represents the OE. word; wineberry is a new formation.]
† 1. A grape. Obs.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. vii. 16 Cwyst þu, gaderað man winberian of þornum? c 1050 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 451/2 Medus, winberᵹe te huniᵹe awylled. a 1225 Ancr. R. 276 Of te druie sprintles bereð winberien? Ibid. 296 Þet beoð þe erest prokunges þet sturieð þe winȝeardes, he seið, ure Louerd, þet beoð ure soulen, þet mot muche tilunge to uorte beren windberien. a 1300 Cursor M. 4468 Me-thoght i sagh a wintre,..O þis tre apon ilk bogh Me-thoght hang winberis inogh. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 142 b, Smouth lyke a grape or wynberry. |
| β 1535 Coverdale 2 Esdras ix. 21 A wynebery of the grapes. [1783 Lemon Engl. Etymol. Pref. p. vi. note, Our Saxon ancestors had Grapes; but, having no name for them, they were obliged to call them Wine-berries.] |
| attrib. c 1265 Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 558/20 Omfacium, i. winberi stones. |
2. Applied formerly or now locally to various berries.
e.g. † The bilberry or whortleberry;
dial. the currant, the gooseberry;
Austral. (
a)
= toot n.5,
tutu1, (
b)
Polyosma cunninghamii; a raspberry of China and Japan,
Rubus phœnicolasius;
N.Z. = makomako2.
| 14.. True Thomas in R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads (1806) II. 20 The darte, and also the damsyn tre. The fygge, and also the wynne bery. 1597 Gerarde Herbal Suppl., Wyne⁓berries is Vaccinia. 1612 Shuttleworth's Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 201 Wineberies ij{supd}. 1622 in Burton Hist. Scot. lxvi. (1870) VI. 67 Gooseberries, Strawberries,..and a kind of red wineberrry. 1703 Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), Wine⁓berries,..not grapes, but gooseberries. 1824 Carr Craven Gloss. 1866 Treas. Bot., Wineberry...Ribes rubrum. ―, New Zealand, a name given by the colonists to Coriaria sarmentosa. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Pl. Australia 590 Polyosma Cunninghamii, Wineberry, and Feather-wood in Southern New South Wales. 1889 T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 223 The makomako or ‘wine-berry’ of the settlers was discovered by Banks and Solander. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 14 Aug. 8/2, I have grown the Japanese wineberry for some years. 1910 L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants & their Story iii. 37 The wineberry..has distinctly pleasing rosy-coloured flowers. 1966 [see makomako2]. 1971 N.Z. Listener 6 Sept. 17/1 There were wineberry trees in the bit of bush. |