blackberrying

blackberry +‎ -ing

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, 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.

• blueberrying
• raspberrying

blackberrying

1. present participle of blackberry