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corrans - currants

hinberry - raspberry blackbum - blackberry bleea berry - bilberry; whortleberry berry - gooseberry nesp (vr) - to nip the stalks and withered flowers off gooseberries ploum - a plum bullases - small round plums slæa - sloe; fruit of the blackthorn

peer - a pear codlin - a kind of apple (Keswicks) côke - the core of fruit pippins - pips of apple or pear cranch - unripe fruit (craunch) feg sæw - figs stewed in ale and seasoned.   Eaten on Good Friday shoûp - wild rose hip

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