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hurtleberry
hurtleberry (ˈhɜːt(ə)lbɛrɪ) Also 5 hurtil-, 6 hurtel-, hirtle-, 7 heurtle-; see also whortleberry. [app. a derivative of hurt n.3, q.v.] The fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus, or the shrub itself; the whortleberry or bilberry; also applied to other species of Vaccinium, and to the allied American genus G...
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Huckleberry
Nomenclature
The name 'huckleberry' is a North American variation of the English dialectal name variously called 'hurtleberry' or 'whortleberry' () for
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Vaccinium myrtillus
Common names
Regional names include blaeberry (Scotland), urts or hurts (Cornwall and Devon), hurtleberry, myrtleberry, wimberry, whinberry, winberry,
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hurtberry
† ˈhurtberry Obs. rare—1. [f. hurt n.3 + berry.] = hurtleberry.a 1661 Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 246 Hurtberries: In Latine Vaccinia, most wholsome to the Stomack, but of a very astringent Nature.
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whortleberry
whortleberry (ˈhwɜːt(ə)lbɛrɪ) Also (8 whirtle-), 8–9 wortleberry. [South-western dial. form of hurtleberry: cf. whort. Used by Lyte, a Somerset man, in his translation of Dodoens' Herbal, whence app. by later writers on plants, so as to have become at length the usual ‘book-name’.] The blue-black fr...
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Vaccinium
huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, "black huckleberry"
Vaccinium myrtillus – common bilberry, blue whortleberry, blaeberry, fraughan, hurtleberry
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huckleberry
huckleberry U.S. (ˈhʌk(ə)lbɛrɪ) [Conjectured to be a corruption of hurtleberry, whortleberry.] 1. a. The fruit and plant of species of Gaylussacia (N.O. Vacciniaceæ), low berry-bearing shrubs, common in North America. Also applied to N. American species of the closely allied Vaccinium, more properly...
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hurtle
▪ I. † hurtle, n.1 Obs. or dial. [? related to hurt n.1, or to F. heurt a blow, the mark of a blow: see hurt n.2] A swelling upon the skin.1599 T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 74 Vpon whose palmes such warts and hurtells rise As may in poulder grate a nutmegge thick. c 1720 W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. v. (...
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hurt
▪ I. hurt, n.1 (hɜːt) Forms: 2–7 hurte, 4 hirt, hourte, 5 hort, hurth, 5–6 hurtt(e, 4– hurt. [app. a. OF. hurte (mod.F. heurte) shock of collision, stroke, blow, f. hurter, heurter: see hurt v. Cf. also later F. heurt ‘shocke, push, or dash; violent meeting or conflict; a knock or knocking together’...
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wh
wh a consonantal digraph, normally represents initial hw in words of OE. origin, as in hwæt what, hwisprian to whisper. In words of other origin, its occurrence may be due to analogy resting on the supposed phonetic appropriateness of the ‘aspirate’ sound, as in whip, whisk; it sometimes varies with...
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