Meaning

1 senses

  1. (archaic)The whortleberry or bilberry.

Origin

From Middle English hurtil, hurtle, from Old English horte (“whortleberry”) (plural hortan

From Middle English hurtil, hurtle, from Old English horte (“whortleberry”) (plural hortan) but of unknown ultimate origin.

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Forms

plural: whortles
Singularwhortle
Pluralwhortles

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedwhortle bush

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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