English

Illustration of blackberrying by Myles Birket Foster.

Noun

blackberrying ‎(uncountable)

1. The act of gathering blackberries.
   • 1859, Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, Hurst and Blackett (1859), page 212:

     And the thought of that old time came upon me like a flood — the winter games at the Cedars — the blackberrying and bilberrying upon the sunshiny summer moors […]

   • 1884, Hesba Stretton, Carola, The Religious Tract Society (1884), page 104:

     When the harvest was over, the nutting and the blackberrying began; […]

   • 1948, Brian Lunn, Switchback: An Autobiography, Eyre & Spottiswoode (1948), page 20:

     At that time there were no built-up areas round Harrow, and during one autumn we gathered enough blackberries for twenty-eight pounds of jam. I enjoyed the blackberrying, but I did not enjoy the walks, which averaged about five miles a day and might be over seven.

   • 1993, Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (1995), ISBN 9780374524487, page 230:

     In the days of Queen Anne, Dick explains, dissenting sects like the Presbyterians were under a ban and had to educate their children in the fields, behind the blackberry hedges, so in the blackberrying season, the children's lips and cheeks were stained black with the fruit.

Translations

See also

• blueberrying
• raspberrying

Verb

blackberrying

1. present participle of blackberry