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单词 vintager
释义

vintagern.

Brit. /ˈvɪntᵻdʒə/, U.S. /ˈvɪn(t)ɪdʒər/
Etymology: < vintage n. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who gathers grapes in the vintage; a labourer or worker at the vintage.
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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 > grape-picker
vintager1589
vendangeur1893
grape-picker1923
1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks ii. 21 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks The grapes which Lesbian vintager doth crop from Methym vine.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vendengeur, a Vintager, or vine-reaper.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Vintager, a Vine-reaper, or Grape-gatherer.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis Because there are green Grapes that the Vintagers ought not to gather and mingle with the others.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 454 The basket of the vintager, and the apron of the reaper.
1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 719 The annual dances of the vintagers, in which they smeared their faces with lees of wine.
1846 W. S. Landor Story of Santander in Wks. II. 464 The officer was..threatening both vintagers and mules for their intractability.
1887 W. Pater Imag. Portraits 167 The sharp sound of a bell—death-bell, perhaps, or only a crazy summons to the vintagers.
figurative.1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 147 They are the same that are pressed here by Christ's Vintagers or Grape~pressers.1865 J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles i. iii. 207 An element of prophecy..unfolding itself beneath the fostering care of the Divine vintager.
b. transferred. Also attributive.
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 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.
1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin ii. 16 From the flower-cups of summer, on field and on tree, Our mead cups are filled by the vintager bee.
1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 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 Latin vindēmiātor: cf. Vindemiatrix n.
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the world > the universe > constellation > zodiacal constellation > [noun] > Virgo > part of
vintager1588
Vindemiatrix1704
1588 A. Ashley tr. L. J. Wagenaer Mariners Mirrour i. sig. B Præuinde~miatrix, The Vintager.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 604 Eleven daies before the Calends of September,..the star named in Latine Vindemiator, i. the Vintager, beginneth to shew in the morning.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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