whortle

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Stakes, with bundles of straws attached to them seemed in readiness for burning himself and his comrades Imagine their amazement when, instead of being roasted, they were taken into a lodge and treated to a kind of whortle-berry pudding ŕ la sauvage The next matter of interest was a noisy wrangle among the warriors as to the distribution of the prisoners.

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  1. Same as whortleberry. Carefully spying across the moor, from behind the tuft of whortles, at first he could discover nothing. R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xxxi.

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  • Stakes, with bundles of straws attached to them seemed in readiness for burning himself and his comrades Imagine their amazement when, instead of being roasted, they were taken into a lodge and treated to a kind of whortle-berry pudding ŕ la sauvage The next matter of interest was a noisy wrangle among the warriors as to the distribution of the prisoners. —  French Pathfinders in North America
  • His brothers and cousins laid him softly on a bank of whortle-berries, and just rode back to the lonely hamlet where he had taken his death-wound. —  Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor
  • I have found wild plums and cherries, and mulberries as long as my finger, and whortle-berries, too. —  The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness
  • Thus she traveled three days together, having nothing to eat or drink but water and green whortle-berries. —  Woman's Life in Colonial Days
  • There were May flowers, violets and anemonies, in spring time; box, whortle, and black berries, in summer, and acorns and walnuts in autumn One fourth of July, when soldiers were marching about the streets--boys were firing crackers--dogs barking, and every body seemed just ready to run crazy, Alfred, and Charlie, who was but a 'wee bit' of a boy, then, with sister Una and myself, determined to make our escape from this scene of confusion. —  No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey
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  1. apparently an abbreviation of whortleberry.
 

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