vine-branchn.
/ˈvʌɪnbrɑːn(t)ʃ/, /ˈvʌɪnbran(t)ʃ/, U.S. /ˈvaɪnˌbræn(t)ʃ/ A branch of a vine-tree.
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c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 11201 The vyne-braunche with alle here grapes.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. Table (1896) 15 Vyne braunchis, to enoynte.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) John xv. 6 He that abydeth not in me, is cast out as a vyne braunche.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Nahum ii. 2 The emptiers haue emptied them out, & marred their vine branches.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 685 He that gladly would in winter season weare a chaplet of vine branches.
1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. i. 44 In Summer time,..the Vessels also, in the Bark of a Vine Branch, do bleed a sower sap.
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 128 If in Summer-time you denude a Vine-branch of its Leaves, the Grapes will never come to maturity.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis That Bulk which they have acquir'd upon the Vine-branches.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) II. 1107/1 He lifted up the vinebranch, with which the centurions chastise such as deserve stripes.
a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIV. 490/2 The vanilla is a plant of the thickness of a small vine branch.
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific xi. 133 Posts of wood, interlaced by vine branches.
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