vint¹ /vint/

A card game like contract bridge

vintage /vinˈtij/

1. The gathering of grapes and preparation for wine-making
2. A season's yield of grapes or wine
3. The time of gathering grapes
4. Wine, esp of a good year
5. The product of a particular period
6. A period of origin

1. Relating to the grape vintage
2. (of wine) of a specified year and of good quality
3. Generally (eg of a play by an author or of a period) among the (best and) most characteristic
4. Out of date and no longer admired

1. To strip of grapes
2. To gather (grapes)
3. To make (wine), esp of a good year

vint noun and transitive verb

(back-formation from vintage)

vintˈager noun

A worker at the vintage

vintˈaging noun

vintage car noun

An old-fashioned car (specif one built between 1919 and 1930)

vintage year noun

One in which a particular product (usu wine) reaches an exceptionally high standard

post-vintage thoroughbred see under thorough

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