2. Noun. (rail transport) (British) A rail-gap indicator ¹
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Definition of Cherries
1. cherry [n] - See also: cherry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherries
Literary usage of Cherries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"In America, the consumption of cherries is being greatly increased by the fashion
... The demand for canned cherries has also increased enormously in this ..."
2. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach, Andrew Lincoln Winton (1913)
"Investigation by the Board of Food and Drug Inspection has led to the decision *
that only marasca cherries, preserved in true maraschino cordial prepared ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore, Alfred Denis Godley (1910)
"THE cherries A PARABLE l SEE those cherries, how they cover Yonder sunny garden
wall ;— Had they not that network over, Thieving birds would eat them all. ..."
4. The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America: Or, the Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1900)
"The Duke and Morello cherries, also wanting a natural division, we make to
constitute another class, and in these two have comprised all the cherries. ..."
5. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"Put them in a box, with a paper between each layers To dry cherries the best way.
To every five pounds of cherries stoned, weigh one of sngar double-refined ..."
6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"An example of this earliness is found in the fact that a scion of one of these
cherries (a sweet variety) was grafted in the spring of 1906 upon an ordinary ..."
7. The Microbiology and Microanalysis of Foods by Albert Schneider (1920)
"There are over 200 cultural varieties of cherries; red and dark red, white; ...
Green cherries contain some starch. Ripe cherries contain no starch. 3. ..."
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