berry
noun
any small, usually stoneless, juicy fruit, irrespective of botanical structure, as the huckleberry, strawberry, or hackberry.
was berrying
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past progressiveof berry.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Probably dead, for there was berrying going on, and the children were continually turning pail.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
In a moment she returned; for it was not for herself she was berrying, but for some speckled-breasted beauty shyly hiding in the alder thicket below.
From Upon The Tree-Tops by Olive Thorne Miller
