The ‘berry’ or fruit of the bramble; a blackberry.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., III. 8. Drince seoca of bræmel berian ʓewrungene oft.
1552. Huloet, Brymble berry, morum.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 314. Bramble berries or Black-berries … are … nourishing to a weak Stomach.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Flux, The Powder of Snails burnt with the Powder of Bramble-berries.
1852. Gard. Chron., 54. In Scotland [and north of England] black currants are called ‘Blackberries,’ and the fruit of Rubus fruticosus is called ‘Bramble-berries.’
