vintagingn.
The action or process of gathering the grapes 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
vendonging1340
vendage1377
vintage1540
grape-harvest1574
grape-gathering1580
vindemiation1609
racemation1623
vint1639
vindemiating1728
vendange1766
vendemmia1826
vintaging1834
graping1854
grape-picking1897
vendimia1965
1834 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets (ed. 2) 218 Then follow successive representations of a city at peace..of reaping, of sheaf-binding, of vintaging.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 280 And timorous must he let the time go by For vintaging.
1890 O. Crawfurd Round Calendar in Portugal 198 The maize-harvest..comes just after the vintaging of the grapes.
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