# cherries

Pronunciation: say "CHE-reez" /ˈt͡ʃɛɹiz/

## Noun

1. Plural of cherry. — plural of cherry
   - Simple: Plural of cherry. Use this form when you mean more than one cherry.
   - _The orchard sold ripe cherries by the pound all summer._
   - _Birds stripped most of the cherries before we could harvest them._
3. A track-side device that indicates a gap or break in a railway rail. *(British)*
   - Simple: A small device that shows when there is a gap or break in a train track.
   - _The maintenance crew tested the cherries along the branch line before reopening it to traffic._
   - _A pair of cherries flagged the fractured rail just south of the station._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present indicative of cherry, in an obsolete sense. *(obsolete)* — third-person singular simple present indicative of cherry
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of cherry. An old word meaning makes something red or makes someone glad.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cherries (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).