| 单词 | vine-cutter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvine-cutter (a) With agent-nouns, as vine-cutter, vine-grower, vine-planter, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] > viticulturist > vine-planter vine-planter1388 (a) 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Kings xxv. 12 He lefte of the pore men of the lond vyntilieris, and erthetilieris. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xv. sig. Z1v The King one morning..saw a vine-labourer, that finding a bowe broken [etc.]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 501 Yet kind it is and wholesome for the Vine-planter and husbandman. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vendengeur, a Vintager, or vine-reaper. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een..wijngaerdenier,..a Vine-gardener. 1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband II. 119 One of our vine-cutters was telling yesterday [etc.]. 1835 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Acharnians App. 245 A metaphor which the vine-growers of Athens easily appreciated. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 928/1 Vine puller, a machine for extracting vines. < as lemmas |
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