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vine-branch
Also vine branch.
[vine n.]
A branch of a vine-tree.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 11201 The vyne-braunche with alle here grapes. c1440Pallad. on Husb. Table (1896) 15 Vyne braunchis, to enoynte. 1535Coverdale John xv. 6 He that abydeth not in me, is cast out as a vyne braunche. 1560Bible (Geneva) Nahum ii. 2 The emptiers haue emptied them out, & marred their vine branches. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 685 He that gladly would in winter season weare a chaplet of vine branches. 1673–4Grew Anat. Pl., Anat. Trunks i. §8 In Summer time,..the Vessels also, in the Barque of a Vine-Branch, do Bleed a Sower Sap. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1692) 128 If in Summer-time you denude a Vine-branch of its Leaves, the Grapes will never come to maturity. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Vitis, That Bulk which they have acquir'd upon the Vine-branches. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1851) II. 1107/1 He lifted up the vinebranch, with which the centurions chastise such as deserve stripes. 1818–22Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 490/2 The vanilla is a plant of the thickness of a small vine branch. 1845J. Coulter Adv. in Pacific xi. 133 Posts of wood, interlaced by vine branches. |