| 单词 | wine-man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswine-man b. Compounds, as in (a) wine-man, a vine-dresser; (b) in reproduction of German compounds, in Coverdale's version of the Bible, rendering Luther's language, as wine-garden, wine-gardener, wine gathering, wine harvest, wine kernel, wine stock, after German weingarten, -gärtner, -ernte, -kern, -stock; (c) in modern use, wineberg, wine-hill, after German weinberg, -hügel vineyard. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] > viticulturist > vine-dresser wine-man1480 vine-dresser1560 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 44 Ysaac le vigneron. Ysaac the wyneman. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 225 Labouraris of the erde, as plew men harow men, wyne men. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. vi. A From the wyne cornels vnto the hulle. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xxvi. 10 He had..wynegardeners on the mountaynes. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxiv. B Like as when a man..seketh after grapes, when the wyne gatheringe is out. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xv. 2 What commeth of the vyne amonge all other trees? and of the wyne stocke, amonge all other tymbre of the groaue? 1870 Daily News 7 Dec. The Tirailleurs..scrambled up through the winebergs. 1885 J. S. Stallybrass tr. V. Hehn Wanderings Plants & Animals 70 The Calydonian legend of the wine-man [Ger. Weinmann] as given by Homer. 1906 Academy 6 Jan. 14/1 Matins, sung High in these wine-hills, wakened me. < as lemmas |
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