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Blackberry

noun

Large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus.

Bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle. Synonym: blackberry bush.

verb

Pick or gather blackberries.

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... the steers had turned the yoke twice on him. Cincinnatus had hung his toga on a tamarac pole to strike a furrow by, and hadn't succeeded in getting the plough in more than twice in going across. Dressing as he did in the Roman costume of 458 B. C., the blackberry vines had scratched his massive legs till they were a sight to behold. He had scourged Old Bright and twisted the tail of Bolly till he was sick at heart. All through the long afternoon, wearing a hot, rusty helmet with rabbit-skin ...

— Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye

... starin' like a stuck pig. 'Well, well,' says he, a-liftin' up both hands, and turnin' up the whites of his eyes like a duck in thunder, 'if that don't bang the bush! It fearly beats sheep shearin' arter the blackberry bushes have got the wool. It does, I vow; them are the tares them Unitarians sow in our grain fields at night; I guess they'll ruinate the crops yet, and make the grounds so everlastin' foul; we'll have to pare the sod and burn it, to kill the roots. Our fathers sowed the right seed here in the ...

— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it still the sumachs grow And blackberry vines ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... to explore this noble old house as my curiosity prompted; for Milly was in such a fuss to set out for the 'blackberry dell' that I saw little more than just so much as I necessarily traversed in making my way to and from ...

— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

... many stops for breath, they dragged the fruit through the cornfield to the creek road, scrambled in behind the dense brush and blackberry vines, and began to dispose of the ...

— At the Little Brown House • Ruth Alberta Brown

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