vintagen.
/ˈvɪntɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈvɪn(t)ɪdʒ/ 1. figurative.1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xxi. 89 The Vintage of my thriftles loue is blasted in the bloome.1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 130 This was the vintage of Kings and great men, but the gleanings of the people were much more plentifull.1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xii, in Prometheus Unbound 216 How like Bacchanals of blood Round France, the ghastly vintage, stood Destruction's sceptred slaves, and Folly's mitred brood.in extended use.1856 B. Taylor Summer's Bacchanal 109 Where the crystal vintage of the mountain Runs in foam from dazzling fields of snow.in extended use.1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. vi. 231 There are vintages, both material and intellectual, which are more frequently praised than heartily enjoyed.
a. The produce or yield of the vine, either as grapes or wine; the crop or yield of a vineyard or district in a single season. Now rare or Obsolete.Quot. a1464 refers to the capture of large supplies of wine from the French.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > crop of grapes
vintagec1450
c1450 Brut ii. 372 Þere þay restid ham a while, and sette þe cuntre yn pees & rest tylle þe vyntage were redy to sayle.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 187 Than þe vyntage of Ynglond took a othir felauchip, where þei hadde a þousand tunne wyn and v hundred.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. (1812) II. xxii. 55 And there he taryed tyll they had inned all their corne and vyntage.
1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks ii. 21 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Not one and selfe same vintage hangs on our Italian trees.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F3v By reason of their stirring and digging the mold about, the rootes of their Vines, they had a great Vintage . View more context for this quotation
1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 327 The commonwealth will be cheated; for most of the wine of this vintage is now in the vintners' cellars.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 24 Two Goblets will I crown with sparkling Wine, The gen'rous Vintage of the Chian Vine.
1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day ii. 45 Shine we in Arms? or sing beneath our Vine? Thine is the Vintage, and the Conquest Thine.
a1771 T. Gray Ess. I in W. Mason Mem. Life & Writings (1775) 197 With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day..Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. iii. 92 Never did..the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage.
1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 79 Where..the milk-white oxen slow With the purple vintage strain, Heaped upon the creaking wain.
b. poetic. Wine, esp. of good or rare quality.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > [noun]
wine805
juicea1387
shrab1477
Bacchus1508
the spirit (also sprite) of the buttery1530
Lyaeus1602
vintage1604
Septembral juice (or liquor)1609
grape1636
cellar physic1697
rosy1840
pluck1904
pinard1917
vino1919
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore iii. iii. 28 We had excellent cheere, rare vintage, and were drunke after supper.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 67 In solid gold the purple vintage flows.
1820 J. Keats Ode to Nightingale in Lamia & Other Poems 108 O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 161 The great knight,..Whom they with meats and vintage of their best And talk and minstrel melody entertain'd.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid i, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 104 Soon for the goblet she asks,..Then with the vintage fills it.
c. Used with reference to the age or year of a particular wine, usually connoting one of good or outstanding quality; now spec. a wine made from the grape-crop of a certain district in a good year and kept separate on account of its quality.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > [noun] > season or year
leaf1432
vint1639
vintage1746
Heurige1834
year1934
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > high class or grade
vintage1746
supernaculum1785
yellow seal1786
grand cru1832
cabinet wine1833
vino fino1846
premier cru1866
tête de cuvée1908
Reserva1920
Kabinett1929
riserva1959
V.D.Q.S.1962
Qualitätswein1971
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. v. 6 Nor old,..nor excellent, my Wine, Of five Years Vintage, and a marshy Vine.
1760 S. Johnson Idler 23 Feb. 57 He may..regale his Palate with a Succession of Vintages.
1817 Ld. Byron Manfred ii. i. 18 Taste my wine; 'Tis of an ancient vintage.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 72 Honest Averill.., fetch'd His richest beeswing from a binn reserved For banquets, praised the waning red, and told The vintage.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 605 The principal claret vintages of the 19th century are considered to have been those of 1815, '25, '28 [etc.].
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 608 The last year when the wine was shipped as a vintage.
d. A property yielding wine. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] > vineyard
winyardc888
vinera1340
vineyarda1340
vinea1382
vineryc1420
vine-gardenc1449
vine-garthc1450
vignoble1480
château1754
cru1824
vintage1840
wine farm1923
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 213 Last summer we purchased a small cask of wine from a woman who owns a little vintage.
2.
a. The gathering of the ripe grapes in order to make them into wine, including the preliminary processes of winemaking, as pressing and placing the juice in the fermenting vats, etc.; the grape-harvest.Also in the phrase † to make vintage (see 1b).
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > grape harvest
vintage1540
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > wine-press > process of pressing
vintage1540
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > grape-picking or harvest
vendonging1340
vendage1377
vintage1540
grape-harvest1574
grape-gathering1580
vindemiation1609
racemation1623
vint1639
vindemiating1728
vendange1766
vendemmia1826
vintaging1834
graping1854
grape-picking1897
vendimia1965
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > pick grapes
to make vintage1540
vintage1598
vindemiate1664
(a)
figurative.1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 197 It was a vintage, not of wine, but of woe.(b)1600 T. Nashe Summers Last Will sig. Fjv My Lord askes thee, what vintage thou hast made?1610 Bible (Douay) II. Jer. xxxi. 5 The planters shal plant, and til the time come they shal not make vintage.1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis My Conjecture is founded upon more than twenty-five Vintages, which I have seen made.figurative.1610 Bible (Douay) II. Lament. i. 12 See if there be sorow like to my sorow: because he hath made vintage of me, as our Lord hath spoken.1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 14 §2 From Burdeux to London for everie tonne Wyne at the fyrst vintage,..xviij.s.
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iv. 114 b Sone after that, a lytle bifore the vintage, that selfe somer.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Micah vii. 1 I am as the somer gatherings, & as the grapes of the vintage.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 405 The grape~gatherer in time of Vintage.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Vintage,..Vine-harvest, Grape-harvest, Grape-gathering, Wine making.
1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxiv. 175 For if it rains a little before the Vintage, the Wine is sharper.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 261 The produce of the vintage in Guienne and Languedoc. View more context for this quotation
1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines ii. 24 The time of the vintage being fixed, it [sc. harvesting] is begun as early in the day as possible.
1863 T. G. Shaw Wine xi. 285 The vintage is often delayed to such a late period of the season as to incur the danger of injury from frost.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 605/1 The vintage in Médoc usually commences between the middle and end of September and lasts from two to three weeks. The process is a very simple one.
b. The season or time when this is done. Also with a and plural.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > time for wine-making
vintage1616
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > grape-picking or harvest > season
vintage time1601
vintage1858
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Vintage, the time of yeare when wine is made.
1655 R. Child in S. Hartlib Legacy (ed. 3) 148 I lived in Charanton two leagus [sic] from Paris, a whole Vintage, purposely to see how wine was made in France.
1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. i. §18. 43 If St. Jerome may be believed, the vintage of Judæa is not till the end of September or beginning of October.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Vintage, the season of gathering grapes.
1876 W. C. Bryant in St. Nicholas Mag. Dec. 101/2 The cider-making season in autumn was, at the time of which I am speaking, somewhat correspondent to the vintage in the wine countries of Europe.
3. transferred and figurative.
a. The date or period when a person was born or flourished.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > age or period of a thing > when a person was born or flourished
vintage1883
1883 Sunday Mercury (N.Y.) 23 Sept. 6/4 ‘I want to sue a man for breach of promise,’ said a maiden of the vintage of 1842, coming into a lawyer's office.
1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday vi. 129 Harding had no sooner arrived at the White House than a swarm of practical politicians of the McKinley-Foraker vintage reappeared in Washington.
1945 A. L. Rowse West-Country Stories 2 He was..a benevolent pluralist of a rich vintage.
1967 J. M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour iv. 79 In many cases the hero has a well-defined style of social behaviour—compare..the cowboy of 1890 vintage.
b. Hence, the date or period at which a thing was made or produced.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > age or period of a thing
birthdaya1500
datea1571
era1646
epoch1655
vintage1929
1929 R. S. Lynd & H. M. Lynd Middletown xiv. 199 Examination questions of the two periods indicate so little change in method and emphasis in teaching that it is almost impossible simply by reading a history examination to tell whether it is of 1890 or 1924 vintage.
1939 E. S. Gardner D.A. draws Circle vii. 105 Mrs Fermal drove up in a rattling car of ancient vintage.
1946 E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 5 His pointed tan buttoned shoes, faded pink shirt and bright tie belong to the same vintage.
1972 J. Rossiter Rope for General Dietz iii. 31 Her accent was a creamy 1969-vintage Roedean.
4.
a. In sense 1c, as vintage claret, vintage class, vintage wine, etc. Also vintage chart, vintage year (in quots. figurative).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [adjective] > vintage
vintage1888
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent year for something
vintage year1933
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > wine book
wine book1947
vintage chart1964
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 608/2 The cheaper wines are an exception.., also those of the so-called ‘vintage’ class, which are the finest wines of a good year kept separate and shipped as the produce of that..year.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 1/1 There does not seem to be much ‘depression’ in the market for vintage wines.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 1 Sept. 2/1 We are allowed to make our little bids for fame with clean shirts, cut hair, sound coats, vintage clarets.
1933 T. E. Lawrence Let. 1 Aug. (1938) 773 Rather a vintage year, for books.
1964 A. Launay Caviare & After xv. 104 If you arm yourself with a vintage chart—easily obtainable from most wine merchants—you can learn the best years for the best wines.
1973 Country Life 15 Nov. 1542/3 Characteristic and impish Lowry of a fine vintage year 1960.
1985 Times 1 May 23/5 Britain's offshore oil and gas industry achieved a vintage year in 1984.
b. transferred. Denoting an old style or model of something, esp. a vehicle; vintage car n. a motor car made between 1905 (or 1917) and 1930; cf. veteran car at veteran adj. 3b
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated
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antiquate?a1425
antique?1532
rusty1549
moth-eaten1551
musty1575
worm-eatenc1575
overyear1584
out of date1589
old-fashioned1592
out of date1592
worm-eat1597
old-fashion1599
ancient1601
outdated1616
out-of-fashion1623
over-aged1623
superannuateda1634
thorough-old1639
overdateda1641
trunk-hosea1643
antiquitated1645
antiquated1654
out-of-fashioned1671
unmodern1731
of the old school1749
auld-farrant1750
old-fangled1764
fossila1770
fogram1772
passé1775
unmodernized1775
oxidated1791
moss-covered1792
square-toeda1797
old-fashionable1807
pigtail1817
behind the times1826
slow1827
fossilized1828
rococo1836
antiquish1838
old-timey1850
out of season1850
moss-grown1851
old style1858
antiqued1859
pigtaily1859
prehistoric1859
backdated1862
played1864
fossiled1866
bygone1869
mossy-backed1870
old-worldly1878
past-time1889
outmoded1896
dated1900
brontosaurian1909
antiquey1926
horse-and-buggy1926
vintage1928
Neolithic1934
time-warped1938
demoded1941
steam age1941
hairy1946
old school1946
rinky-dink1946
time warp1954
Palaeolithic1957
retardataire1958
throwback1968
wally1969
antwacky1975
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > veteran or vintage
veteran1914
vintage car1979
1928 M. Arlen Lily Christine ii. 23 You should see mine in London—a vintage Buick.
1933 Sat. Evening Post 13 May 4/2 Alfred P. Sloan tries out a vintage model automobile.
1950 T. Guthrie Top of Ladder in Plays of Year III. 569 Goes on working at her vintage telephone.
1958 Listener 21 Aug. 261/2 The details of a vintage aircraft or an early locomotive.
1965 Guardian 6 Nov. 3/8 A ‘veteran’ is any car made before December 31, 1904. From January 1, 1905 to December 31, 1910, the definition..is ‘Edwardian’, and from then to December 31, 1930, cars are classified as ‘Vintage’.
1979 J. Leasor Love & Land Beyond iii. 32 The familiar vintage car smell of hot oil and old metal and carnauba wax polish.
1985 New Yorker 27 May 31/1 A debonair gentleman..wearing a vintage tweed jacket.
c. Characteristic of the best period of a person's work, etc.; classic.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > very excellent or first-rate
gildenc1225
prime1402
rare1483
grand1542
holy1599
pre-excelling1600
paregal1602
classic1604
of (the) first rate1650
solary1651
first rate1674
superb1720
tip-top1722
tip-top-gallant1730
swell1819
topping1822
of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1826
No. 11829
brag1836
A11837
A No. 11838
number one1839
awful1843
bully1851
first class1852
class1867
champion1880
too1881
tipping1887
alpha plus1898
bonzer1898
grade A1911
gold star1917
world-ranking1921
five-star1936
too much1937
first line1938
vintage1939
supercolossal1947
top1953
alpha1958
fantabulous1959
beauty1963
supercool1965
world-class1967
primo1973
1939 Country Life 11 Feb. 147/1 With a few minor reservations, this [play] may be recommended as vintage Coward.
1959 R. Gant World in Jug 7 My name is Larry Alden and maybe you'll only know it if you have a long memory or a stack of vintage jazz records.
1972 Guardian 25 Jan. 9/3 It was pure vintage Deauville to the background of Henry Hall type music.
1977 D. MacKenzie Raven & Kamikaze i. 20 The Pole's..tone was compassionate. ‘She is in love with me.’ This was vintage Zaleski. ‘Of course,’ said Raven.
Compounds
General attributive.
vintage-ball n.
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1876 ‘Ouida’ In Winter City xiv For the Palestrina vintage balls.
vintage-day n.
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1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 23 'T was the vintage-day of field and wood.
vintage-dinner n.
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1838 J. Pardoe River & Desart II. 31 A vintage-dinner, at which I have just assisted.
vintage-eve n.
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1826 F. D. Hemans Forest Sanctuary i. xliii The hour, the scene,..came floating o'er my mind—A golden vintage-eve.
vintage feast n.
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a1820 S. Rogers Jacqueline in Poems (1839) 24 Thro' Provence had ceased The vintage and the vintage-feast.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 49 Even the spontaneous joy of the vintage~feast was conferred by the favour..of Dionysos.
vintage-festival n.
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1833 Philolog. Museum II. 297 The difficulty of assigning a vintage festival to the month of February.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 247 The lesser Dionysia..were held..in the month of December. This was a vintage festival.
vintage-god n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities
Plutoc1330
Herculesc1369
Proteusa1425
Tellusc1425
chaosa1522
grace1538
terminus1565
victory1569
Hymena1593
harvest queen1598
Hades1599
aurora1610
puffer1615
Egeria1624
hour1637
Hygeia1737
Kore1844
Nike1846
vintage-god1873
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets ix. 276 The cultus of the vintage-god [sc. Dionysus].
vintage holiday n.
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1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 65 The young gallants thinking to keep the Vintage holy~dayes.
vintage-home n. after harvest home n.
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1839 T. Mitchell in Aristophanes Frogs Introd. p. cxix The ingathering of grapes, and, if we may be allowed such a term, the vintage-home which followed.
vintage hymn n.
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1800 T. Moore tr. Anacreon Odes lix. 12 The choral song, the vintage hymn Of rosy youths and virgins fair.
vintage-man n.
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1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Vendimiador, a Vintage-man that gathers the Grapes.
vintage-monger n.
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1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. vii. 29 An infinite number of little pimping Wine-presses, all full of Vintagemongers, who were picking, examining, and raking the Grapes.
vintage shout n.
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1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 197 Where aforetime was the vintage-shout in thankfulness for the ingathering, there..should be wailing.
vintage song n.
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c1820 S. Rogers Italy (1839) 280 From the first hour, when vintage-songs broke forth.
1836 Earl Carnarvon Portugal & Gallicia I. 94 Groups of vintagers..were gathering grapes, and singing the vintage song.
vintage time n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > grape-picking or harvest > season
vintage time1601
vintage1858
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 148 Staphis..waxeth ripe..at vintage time.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 15 As a swarm of flies in vintage time . View more context for this quotation
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis Dew is rarely wanting in Vintage-Time.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 48 'Tis the vintage-time for death and sin.
1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean II. xxvii. 222 To see their emperor living there.., his hands red at vintage-time with the juice of the grapes.
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vintagev.
/ˈvɪntɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈvɪn(t)ɪdʒ/ 1. intransitive. (See quot.) rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [verb (intransitive)]
vintage1598
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > pick grapes
to make vintage1540
vintage1598
vindemiate1664
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Vendemmiare, to vintage, to gather grapes, to make wine.
1893 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ In Vine Country viii. 153 A little, incredibly bowed woman, who had been vintaging here at Quinault for the last eighty years.
1923 F. Stark Let. 16 Sept. (1974) I. 77 The people here are vintaging... All the country from Cette to this place is vine.
1975 P. V. Price Taste of Wine v. 94/2 In many vintages, such as 1964, they can make wines quite different from those of the Medoc, because being further south they vintage a little earlier.
2. transitive.
a. To strip (vines or a vineyard) of grapes at the vintage. Also figurative. ? Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > pick or gather [verb (transitive)] > pick grapes > strip vines
vintage1618
1618 F. Bacon Lett. (1734) 87 I humbly beseech his Majestie that these royal boughs of forfeiture may not be vintaged or cropped by private suitors.
1648 tr. J.-F. Senault Paraphr. Job 222 They either carry away the corne which is not yet cut, or pillage the vines which are not yet vintaged.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xxiii. 99 The Devil take me..if the Close of Sevillé had not been all gather'd, vintag'd, glean'd and destroy'd.
b. To gather (grapes) in order to make wine; to make (wine) from gathered grapes.Usually with special reference to the production of wine of fine quality (cf. vintage n. 1c).
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [verb (transitive)]
vint1857
vintage1888
vinify1969
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [verb (transitive)] > harvest grapes
vintage1888
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > pick or gather [verb (transitive)] > pick grapes
vintage1888
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 605/2 If..a first growth is vintaged a little too late and does not succeed so well as some second growths.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 3/2 The Department of the Marne, where the true sparkling champagne is vintaged.
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