berry
noun
any small, usually stoneless, juicy fruit, irrespective of botanical structure, as the huckleberry, strawberry, or hackberry.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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He informed us that an old cinnamon bear and two cubs were berrying along the creek, and had taken the right of way.
From The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams