Lexicographical Neighbors of Groserts
Literary usage of Groserts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological by Mark Antony Lower (1849)
"... Gowans,6 and Spinks ;7 with Pecks of Alder-Berrys, groserts,B Pears, Lemons,
Plumbs, with a Grafter to graft them. Of Animals, we have Lions, Griffins, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"... that persons who walked in the fields or gathered " groserts " in time of
sermon were to be excommunicated, that the Sabbath was a season of penitential ..."
3. Personal Memoirs: Or, Reminiscences of Men and Manners at Home and Abroad by Pryse Lockhart Gordon (1830)
"... and that he would shew them a country where guineas were as rife as gooseberries,"
which he called groserts. I confess I did not believe all this, ..."
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