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Blaeberry n. The bilberry. (North of Eng. & Scot.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... line and creel many a day. Trout couldn't fool Joe. He was the one to find plovers' eggs, and to spot a blaeberry patch. Joe has some senses ordinary people do not have, I think. I should like to hear about Joe ...

— The Squire of Sandal-Side - A Pastoral Romance • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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... failed to find in Ducange or in any other authority which I have been able to consult. It is, however, evidently, from the context, some kind of ground fruit, and may perhaps be the strawberry or the Blaeberry—although the Latin for these seems to be generally fragum and bacca myrtilii. This fruit was white or purpureus—wherein another difficulty arises as to the meaning of purpureus. The individual berries were as big as large balls, and tasted like honey. In this island were the ...

— Brendan's Fabulous Voyage • John Patrick Crichton Stuart Bute

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... the blaeberry shrub contains the tanning quality as four to one compared to the oak—which may be of great importance, as it grows so ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

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