whortle

English

Noun

whortle (plural whortles)

  1. (archaic) The whortleberry or bilberry.
    • R. D. Blackmore
      […] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for whortle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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