grapevinen.
/ˈɡreɪpvʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪpˌvaɪn/, Australian English /ˈɡræepvɑen/ 1. Vitis vinifera.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > grape-vine
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1654 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1893) II. 78 Bounded..on the East-end on the lower side..by the grape Vines.
c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Grape-vine, a vine.
1765 G. Croghan Jrnl. 128 A great part of the trees in the bottom are covered with grape vines.
1815 D. Drake Nat. & Statist. View Cincinnati ii. 70 [The shells] were lying in connexion with grape vines and other vegetables.
1845 M. Fuller Woman in 19th Cent. 47 An isle..perfumed by the blossoming grape vines which draped its bowers.
1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend v. 239 Blossoms of grape-vines scent the sunny air.
1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story x, in Harper's Mag. Sept. 537/1 The grape-vine..can endure an unusual degree of drought.
2. In various applied senses:
a. Originally a canard, current during the American Civil War, and shortened from: ‘a despatch by grape-vine telegraph’ (Funk's Stand. Dict.). Now in general use to indicate the route by which a rumour or a piece of information (often of a secret or private nature) is passed.
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society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > route by which rumour is passed
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bush telegraph1878
moccasin telegram1908
moccasin telegraph1909
a1867 B. F. Willson Old Sergeant vii. (Funk) Just another foolish grape-vine.
1891 Cent. Mag. Mar. 713/2 The ‘grape-vine’ spoke to us of little else.
1934 J. T. Farrell Studs Lonigan (1936) ii. xv. 337 Down there at that express company they find out about everything a guy does. They got the best grapevine in the world.
1948 Daily Tel. 3 Sept. 4/5 The guerrillas know the jungle, and they have an almost incredible ‘grapevine’ which gets information from one State to another with uncanny speed.
1955 Times 11 June 9/6 Of the younger men, the Moscow grape-vine reported that Mr. Shepilov, editor of Pravda, was coming forward to strengthen the party theoreticians.
1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed vii. 54 Hurrying a message through the grapevine to the trafficker.
1970 New Yorker 3 Oct. 100/2 The art-world grapevine buzzed with rumors.
b. A hold in wrestling (Farmer).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > wrestling > [noun] > manoeuvres
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1968 T. Clayton Handbk. Wrestling Terms & Holds 103 (caption) Double grapevine with arm tieup.
c. A figure in skating.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > figure-skating > figure > specific figure or movement
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grapevine1868
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toe-spin1921
death spiral1933
1868 G. Anderson Art Skating (ed. 2) iii. 36 The Canadian Grape-Vine..I saw it beautifully performed last winter, and it looks like a curious interlacing and juggling of the feet.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 30 Dec. 3/2 The expert dons his skates and glides..off with the air of one to whom threes, grape-vines,..and other mysterious figures are..familiar.
1952 Visct. Templewood in Skating with T. D. Richardson xiii. 104 In days long ago it was the fashion to perform a series of two-footed movements called grapevines.
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General attributive.
grapevine beetle n.
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1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 189 The vines have been injured to some extent by the leaf-louse; the grape-vine beetle has not been seen.
grapevine bridle n.
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1824 P. Horry Life of Gen. Francis Marion (1833) 47 You might be sure to see..the fences strung along with starved tackies, in grape-vine bridles and sheep-skin saddles.
grapevine journalist n.
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1959 Economist 4 Apr. 20/2 The grapevine journalists have been listening; up to Thursday morning the grapevine still had not yielded any word.
grapevine juice n.
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1813 J. K. Paulding Lay of Sc. Fiddle (1814) iv. 81 He..Foster'd the honours of his head, With grape-vine juice, and bear's grease too.
grapevine land n.
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1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 407 The comparatively poor land, on which grapevines grow wild, and which is hence called Grapevine Land.
grapevine method n.
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1942 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 3/4 Each province is presumed to have a leader..whose instructions are transmitted by ‘grapevine’ methods from one person to another.
grapevine moth n.
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1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 326/1 The caterpillars of the grapevine moth, which found its way to New Zealand from Australia in recent years, depredate vines by devouring the foliage and damaging the developing grapes.
grapevine rope n.
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1843 R. Carlton New Purchase I. xii. 90 An athletic woman stepped..into the boat, her little boy at the moment casting loose the grape vine rope—its fastening.
grapevine rumour n.
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1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. iii. 61 The careless victor never knew Their grape~vine rumour would grow true.
grapevine sphinx n.
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1886 Harper's Mag. June 45/2 Leaf-rollers, the grape-vine sphinx, and caterpillars..must be caught by hand.
grapevine telegraph n. (see sense 2a.)
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1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms (at cited word) During the Civil War exciting news of battles not fought and victories not won were said to be received by grape-vine telegraph.
1936 J. G. Brandon Pawnshop Murder iii. 26 I'll see what I can get over the ‘grapevine’ telegraph.
1951 John o' London's Weekly 17 Aug. 494/2 First with the news was..the little old man who cleans our windows... He is our grapevine telegraph.
1953 X. Fielding Stronghold i. i. 5 I had long ago ceased to wonder at the workings of their grape-vine telegraph.
grapevine telegraphic adj.
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1864 in Southern Hist. Soc. Papers (1876) I. 437 Many ‘grape-vine’ telegraphic reports are afloat in camp.
grapevine weevil n.
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1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 326/1 The grapevine weevil can cause considerable damage by eating the leaves, shoots, and bunches.
grapevine wire n.
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1907 J. L. Given Making Newspaper xiii. 230 Not often does a telegraph editor..manufacture news, or, in the vernacular, employ the ‘grapevine wire’.
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