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1587 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnius Herbal for Bible v. 39 His glorious beautie shall be a fading flower, and as the hastie fruit afore Sommer and ripening time.

1650 A. Bradstreet Tenth Muse 8 The Summer ripening season I do claim.

1681 T. Langford Plain Instr. Fruit-trees xiii. 110 As much of the summer heat at ripening time as may be.

1730 J. Cowell Curious & Profitable Gardener i. iv. 108 Force such nectarines to blossom a Month before their time, that their ripening Season may be in the hottest time of the Year.

1768 J. Langford Believer made Ripe for Death 18 There is a meetening, a ripening time for you.

1842 Dublin Monthly Mag. Apr. 338 Evening is the ripening time.

1892 Sessional Papers Province Ont. XXIV. No. 16. 178 The ripening vat consists essentially of a tin vat surrounded by an air space.

1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars i. 7 The great Ukka-tree, which he had climbed at ripening-time.

1947 J. H. Collins in P. I. Smith Pract. Plastics vii. 91/1 An acetyl value of fifty-three is the material sought. It is obtained by over-acetylating and then hydrolysing back by adding water to the mixture in a ripening vat.

2006 Decanter June 76/3 Perhaps the hottest issue being debated in the trenches is extended ripening periods or ‘hang times’ for grapes.