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vintner|ˈvɪntnə(r)|
Forms: α. 5 vyntenere, -tyner, 5–6 -tener, 6 -tenar (Sc. ventennar), 6–7 vintener; 6 vyntoner, 7 vintoner. β. 5–6 vyntner(e, 6– vintner (8 vinctner).
[Alteration of vinter.]
One who deals in or sells wine; a wine-merchant; † an innkeeper selling wine.
αc1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 211 Masouns, carpenterys, of Yngelond and of Fraunce, Bakerys, browsterys, vyntenerys, with fressh lycour. c1440Promp. Parv. 510 Vyntenere, vinarius. c1470Cath. Angl. 402/1 (Add. MS.), Vyntyner. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 25 Or as the vyntenar gyueth frely to his customers or byers a taste of his wyne. 1530in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 91 No vyntoner shuld set any wyne a broche. 1587Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 149 Such [wine] as was anie waies mingled or brued by the vintener. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 156 They had not our Vinteners fraud to mixe their Wines. 1636J. Taylor (Water P.) Trav. Signes Zodiack A v b, All the worthy Company of Vintoners. 1669–70Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 301 One Mr. Wadlow, a vintener,..was represented as notoriously faulty.
βc1460Promp. Parv. (Winch. MS.), Vyntnere, vinarius. 1483Cath. Angl. 402/1 A vyntner.., vinitor, merothecarius. 1548Cooper Elyot's Dict., Oenopola,..a tauerner or vintner. 1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. iv. (1880) 54 Straight after this comes Vrban in, the Vintners God deuine. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier G ij, Now sir for the vintner, hee is an honest substantiall man, a friend to al good fellowes. 1605Breton Old Man's Lesson B ij, The Vintner, the Grocer, the Comfit-maker,..doe by the venting of their wares, the better maintaine their trades. 1657Trapp Comm. Job xxxiii. 3 They..may here learn..not to huckster the Word of God, or corrupt it with their own mixtures, as Vintners do their wines. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2285/4 Charles Courtney..Vintner and Innholder. 1725W. Halfpenny Sound Building List of Subs., Mr. Peter Hudson, of Richmond, Vinctner. 1772Johnson in Boswell 6 April, Mr. Pitt might think it an advantageous thing for him to make him a vintner, and get him all the Portugal trade; but [etc.]. 1810Crabbe Borough v. 195 Uncheck'd, the vintner still his poison vends. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 633 Once, merely from a malignant whim, he staved all the wine in a vintner's cellar. 1880Dixon Windsor III. xxxi. 306 A vintner was a big man in Elizabeth's time.
†b. merchant vintner. (Cf. merchant n. 1 and merchant tailor, etc.) Obs.
1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 6 If at the tyme of any suche sale of Wyne purposed to be made, the merchaunt vyntener, or other owner..thereof, do..declare [etc.]. 1600Chester Pl. Proëm. (Shaks. Soc.) 4 And you, worthy marchauntes vintners that nowe have plenty of wine, Amplifye the storie of those wise Kinges three.
Hence ˈvintneress, a female vintner. ˈvintnership, the occupation or position of a vintner. ˈvintnery, the trade of a vintner; wine-selling.
1641J. Johnson Acad. Love 89 Hosts and Vint'neresses looke to your score. 1673O. Walker Educ. 67 He that lives abstemiously..needs not study the wholesomnes of this meat,..nor is critical in cookery and vintnership. 1816Struthers Poet. Wks. (1850) I. 148 Before engaging in the tempting career, let them consider..how they will enjoy a Vintnership. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. ii, Unless..the father of him did, in an unexceptionable manner, perform Cookery and Vintnery in the Village of Ouarville. |