whortle

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Etymology

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From Middle English hurtil, hurtle, from Old English horte (whortleberry) (plural hortan) but of unknown ultimate origin.

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Noun

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whortle (plural whortles)

  1. (archaic) The whortleberry or bilberry.
    • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone:
      [] 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.
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