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wineberry|ˈwaɪnbɛrɪ|
Forms: 1 winber(i)ᵹe, 3 winberi, erron. wind-, 6 wynberry. β. 6 wyneber(r)y, 7– wineberry.
[OE. wínberiᵹe = OS. wînberi, OHG. wînberi (MHG. -ber(e, G. weinbeere), ON. vínber (cf. Goth. weinabasi): see wine n.1, berry n.1 ME. wĭnberi normally represents the OE. word; wineberry is a new formation.]
†1. A grape. Obs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. vii. 16 Cwyst þu, gaderað man winberian of þornum? c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 451/2 Medus, winberᵹe te huniᵹe awylled. a1225Ancr. R. 276 Of te druie sprintles bereð winberien? Ibid. 296 Þet beoð þe erest prokunges þet sturieð þe winȝeardes, he seið, ure Louerd, þet beoð ure soulen, þet mot muche tilunge to uorte beren windberien. a1300Cursor M. 4468 Me-thoght i sagh a wintre,..O þis tre apon ilk bogh Me-thoght hang winberis inogh. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 142 b, Smouth lyke a grape or wynberry.
β1535Coverdale 2 Esdras ix. 21 A wynebery of the grapes. [1783Lemon Engl. Etymol. Pref. p. vi. note, Our Saxon ancestors had Grapes; but, having no name for them, they were obliged to call them Wine-berries.]
attrib.c1265Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 558/20 Omfacium, i. winberi stones.
2. Applied formerly or now locally to various berries.
e.g. † The bilberry or whortleberry; dial. the currant, the gooseberry; Austral. (a) = toot n.5, tutu1, (b) Polyosma cunninghamii; a raspberry of China and Japan, Rubus phœnicolasius; N.Z. = makomako2.
14..True Thomas in R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads (1806) II. 20 The darte, and also the damsyn tre. The fygge, and also the wynne bery. 1597Gerarde Herbal Suppl., Wyne⁓berries is Vaccinia. 1612Shuttleworth's Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 201 Wineberies ijd. 1622in Burton Hist. Scot. lxvi. (1870) VI. 67 Gooseberries, Strawberries,..and a kind of red wineberrry. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray (E.D.S.), Wine⁓berries,..not grapes, but gooseberries. 1824Carr Craven Gloss. 1866Treas. Bot., Wineberry...Ribes rubrum. ―, New Zealand, a name given by the colonists to Coriaria sarmentosa. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Pl. Australia 590 Polyosma Cunninghamii, Wineberry, and Feather-wood in Southern New South Wales. 1889T. Kirk Forest Flora N.Z. 223 The makomako or ‘wine-berry’ of the settlers was discovered by Banks and Solander. 1900Westm. Gaz. 14 Aug. 8/2, I have grown the Japanese wineberry for some years. 1910L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants & their Story iii. 37 The wineberry..has distinctly pleasing rosy-coloured flowers. 1966[see makomako2]. 1971N.Z. Listener 6 Sept. 17/1 There were wineberry trees in the bit of bush. |