raspberrying
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raspberrying (uncountable)
- The act of gathering raspberries.
- 1933, American Forests, volume 39, page 347:
- The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles.
- 1944, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Mainstays of Maine, The Macmillan Company, published 1944, page 88:
- Sitting down is the secret of good raspberrying. It is also easier on your pants and nerves, by the way. Raspberries call for a sitting posture.
- 1957, Lura Beam, A Maine Hamlet, Yankee Books, page 138:
- During July and August, church, Sunday School, and prayer meeting returned, and there were strawberrying, swimming, the Pondlily Walk, blueberrying, raspberrying, blackberrying, […]
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raspberrying
- present participle and gerund of raspberry