单词 | vine-dresser |
释义 | vine-dressern. One occupied in the pruning, training, and cultivation of vines. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] > viticulturist > vine-dresser wine-man1480 vine-dresser1560 1560 Bible (Geneva) Joel i. 11 Houle, o ye vine dressers for the wheat, and for the barly. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. lii. 16 Nebuzaradan..left certaine of the poore of the land for Vine~dressers and for husbandmen. View more context for this quotation 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (vii.) ii. 131 The Apostle exemplifieth the equity of this..by a Vine-dressers partaking of the fruit of it. 1709 London Gaz. 4556/1 Of these there are, Husbandmen and Vinedressers, one thousand eighty three. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 341 That so the vine dresser may dig all round the vine. 1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 123 When the vines were all gathered, the vinedressers came in procession under the castle windows. 1884 J. De Mille Castle in Spain iv Shepherds, goatherds, and vine-dressers stared lazily up. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1560 |
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