| 释义 |
vine-dresser
[vine n.]
One occupied in the pruning, training, and cultivation of vines.
1560Bible (Geneva) Joel i. 11 Houle, o ye vine dressers for the wheat, and for the barly. 1611Bible Jer. lii. 16 Nebuzaradan..left certaine of the poore of the land for Vine⁓dressers and for husbandmen. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. vii. (1655) ii. 131 The Apostle exemplifieth the equity of this..by a Vine-dressers partaking of the fruit of it. 1709Lond. Gaz. 4556/1 Of these there are, Husbandmen and Vinedressers, one thousand eighty three. 1763Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. IV. 341 That so the vine dresser may dig all round the vine. 1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 123 When the vines were all gathered, the vinedressers came in procession under the castle windows. 1884J. De Mille Castle in Spain iv, Shepherds, goatherds, and vine-dressers stared lazily up.
fig.1770Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. 1808 II. 273, I do not mean those branches [of trade] which bear without the hand of the vine-dresser. |