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plural blackberries
A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids. examples
The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets. examples
(UK, dialectal) The blackcurrant. examples
third-person singular simple present blackberries, present participle blackberrying, simple past and past participle blackberried
To gather or forage for blackberries. quotations examples
She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun
1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.
1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books, published 2006, page 111
Thereafter we blackberried unceasingly and returned with a large basketful, together with some maggoty windfall apples found neglected in the wet grass on the edge of an orchard and Mrs Clare duly stewed these for us.
1988, Arthur Bryson Gerrard, Butterflies & coalsmoke, page 62
My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.
2001, Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2001, page 72
Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.
2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland, Gothic Image, published 2004, page 48