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ˈvintager
[f. vintage n. + -er.]
1. One who gathers grapes in the vintage; a labourer or worker at the vintage.
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 21 The grapes which Lesbian vintager doth crop from Methym vine. 1611Cotgr., Vendengeur, a Vintager, or vine-reaper. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vintager, a Vine-reaper, or Grape-gatherer. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Vitis, Because there are green Grapes that the Vintagers ought not to gather and mingle with the others. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 454 The basket of the vintager, and the apron of the reaper. 1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 719 The annual dances of the vintagers, in which they smeared their faces with lees of wine. 1846Landor Story of Santander Wks. II. 464 The officer was..threatening both vintagers and mules for their intractability. 1887Pater Imag. Portraits 167 The sharp sound of a bell—death-bell, perhaps, or only a crazy summons to the vintagers.
fig.1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 147 They are the same that are pressed here by Christ's Vintagers or Grape⁓pressers. 1865Mozley Mirac. i. iii. 207 An element of prophecy..unfolding itself beneath the fostering care of the Divine vintager.
b. transf. Also attrib.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 6 A..hill, abounding in these beasts [sc. monkeys], who are a great hinderance to the poore vintagers of the countrey of Calechut, for they will climbe into the high palm trees,..breaking the vessels set to receiue the Wine. 1829T. L. Peacock Misfort. Elphin 16 From the flower cups of summer on field and on tree Our mead cups are filled by the vintager bee. 1871Lowell Study Wind. 7 A dozen of these winged vintagers [sc. robins] bustled out from among the leaves.
2. (With capital initial.) A bright star in the constellation of Virgo.
After L. vindēmiātor: cf. Vindemiatrix.
1588Ashley Wagenar's Mariners Mirr. B j, Præuinde⁓miatrix, The Vintager. 1601Holland Pliny I. 604 Eleven daies before the Calends of September,..the star named in Latine Vindemiator, i. the Vintager, beginneth to shew in the morning. |