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▪ I. † ˈviner1 Obs.
Forms: 4–5 vyner (4 vigner), 5 viner, -ere.
[? ad. med.L. vinārium, f. L. vīnum wine. Cf. vinery 1.]
A vineyard.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxxvii. 52 He sloghe in haghil þe vyners of þa. Ibid. Cant. Hab. 27 Burioyn sall noght be in þe vyners. 1382Wyclif Luke xiii. 7 Sum man hadde a fyge tree plauntid in his vyner. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xvii. 389 The lord of the vyner..and of the werk doon in his Vyner.
▪ II. † ˈviner2 Obs.
Also 4 vinour, 5 -oure, vyn-, vignour; 6 vyner.
[a. OF. vignour, vigneur, or AF. viner (Gower) vine-grower; with sense 2 cf. OF. vinier, vignier wine-merchant.]
1. A vine-grower or vine-dresser.
α1390Gower Conf. III. 148 The king and the vinour also Of wommen comen bothe tuo. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxciii. (Bodl. MS.), Vligo is þe kinde vinoure of þe erþe,..for þis tre rereþ vp and susteyneþ bowes, frute, & spraies of vines. a1470H. Parker Dives & Pauper (W. de W. 1496) i. xxii. 58/1 Some ben shepeherdes,..some vynours, some of other craftes as the contre axeth. 1474Caxton Chesse ii. iii. (1883) 41 Yf the smythes, the carpentiers, y⊇ vignours and other craftymen saye that it is most necessarye to studye for the comyn prouffit.
β1552Huloet, Vyner, or orderer, or trymmer of vynes, vinetor. 1570Levins Manip. 77 A viner, vinitor. 1611Florio, Vignaio, a vineroll, a viner, a vine dresser.
2. A member of the Vintners' Company.
1674Marvell Ld. Mayor & Crt. Aldermen xviii, And now, worshipful sirs, Go fold up your furs, And Viners turn again, turn again.
▪ III. ˈviner3 orig. U.S.
[f. vine n. 4 c + -er1.]
An implement for gathering the product of ‘vines’; esp. one used to harvest peas.
1902Encycl. Brit. (ed. 10) XXVI. 558/1 By the aid of modern machinery, the [pea-] pods are gathered by a viner. 1949Nat. Geogr. Mag. Sept. 331/2 ‘Viners’ that thresh out the peas were working day and night. 1963Times 14 Jan. 13/1 Pea haulm silage, made under cover direct from the viners, plays a major part in the winter feeding. 1981Southern Horticulture (N.Z.) Spring 36/1 In the 1950s the chore of hand-picking peas was removed with the development of a viner, to which the cut plants were cut and carted. 1982East Anglian Daily Times 20 Nov. 5 The largest harvester around—the Mather and Platt SB8000 pea viner, soon to be produced in Suffolk. |