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Vinony

berry

verb

  1. to gather or pick berries
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noun

  1. botanical fruit with fleshy pericarp, containing one or many seeds
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbɛɹi/

name

Etymology: From French Berry.

  1. A former province in Centre-Val de Loire region, France.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English bery (“a burrow”). More at burrow.

  1. A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
  2. An excavation; a military mine.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English beryen, berien, from Old English *berian (found only in past participle ġebered (“crushed, kneaded, harassed, oppressed, vexed”)), from Proto-West Germanic *barjan, from Proto-Germanic *barjaną (“to beat, hit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to rip, cut, split, grate”). Cognate with Scots berry, barry (“to thresh, thrash”), German beren (“to beat, knead”), Icelandic berja (“to beat”), Latin feriō (“strike, hit”, verb).

  1. To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
  2. To thresh (grain).