[f. BERRY sb.1; cf. to apple.]
1. intr. To come into berry; to fill or swell.
1865. E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, 402. The wheat, oats and barley … were now berrying full and plump.
1873. Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, xxx. (1883), 167. The late bees were buzzing around him though the linden had berried.
2. To go a berrying, i.e., gathering berries.
a. 1871. Miss Sedgwick, in Life & Lett., 44. I went with herds of school-girls nutting and berrying.
