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Quotation dates: 1929
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BERRY, n.4 A rock. [′bɛrɪ]Ork. 1929 Marw.:
She was much perturbed by her husband's not returning from the rock-fishing (for "sillocks"). On going to look for him she met an old man returning who had been with her man. He comforted her by telling her that he had left her husband fishing on a rock called "Tangie"; then, continuing. he said: "Tangie's a gully berry; hid'll hurt naething."
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