单词 | vineyard-dresser |
释义 | > as lemmasvineyard-dresser C1. attributive and in other combinations, as vineyard-culture, vineyard-dresser, vineyard-ground, etc. ΚΠ 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. x. sig. Vvvv.iiijv/2 The ministers of the Church are somtime called souldiers or vineyard-keepers. 1636 W. Prynne Unbishoping of Timothy & Titus 129 Like as an higher place is made for the vineyard keeper, to keepe the vineyard, so an higher place also is made for the Bishops. a1704 T. Brown tr. Beroaldus Declam. in Def. Gaming in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) i. 146 Bacchus was made a God, a Vine-yard-keeper [etc.]. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis I have seen in one Place in this Vineyard-Plot great Pieces of old Vines replanted after the aforesaid manner. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry (title page) A Method of introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vii. 29 Without which they could not give it [sc. corn] the Vineyard-Hoing. c1820 S. Rogers Italy (1839) 41 As I rambled through thy vineyard-ground. c1820 S. Rogers Italy (1839) 223 When on a vineyard-hill we lay concealed. 1849 K. H. Digby Compitum II. 361 Pope Urban I should be painted with grapes and a vine, being the patron of vineyardmen. 1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 539 And we believe we discern some lines of men descending Down through the vineyard-slopes. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 928/1 A French double vineyard plow. < as lemmas |
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