whortle
- a variation of whort.
Example Sentences
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Vaccinium oxycoccos, creeping bilberries, or cranberries,—in the bogs of Bin’s Pond. p. 107Vaccinium myrtillus, whortle, or bleaberries—on the dry hillocks of Wolmer Forest.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry
Strew over it either currants, cherries, cranberries, gooseberries, black or whortle berries.
The air is still and sunlit, The moor's a russet bed, The bracken's turning beryl, The whortle leaves are red.
From The Dales of Arcady by Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una
They are hunted in the “fall,” when they have become fat with the ample supply of blue and whortle berries or beech-mast on which they have been feeding.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Their tops are covered with bracken, heather, scrub oak, and quantities of whortle berries, the ripening of the last marking the beginning of the summer holidays for the village children, who then go "whorting."
From Somerset by Wade, G. W.
