vineyardn.
/ˈvɪnjəd/, /ˈvɪnjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈvɪnjərd/ a. A piece of ground in which grapevines are cultivated; a plantation of vines.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] > vineyard
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vinera1340
vineyarda1340
vinea1382
vineryc1420
vine-gardenc1449
vine-garthc1450
vignoble1480
château1754
cru1824
vintage1840
wine farm1923
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter civ. 31 He smate þaire vynȝerdis & þaire fige trese.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. cxli Þis tree..is beste in gardines to close hem wiþ and vineȝardes.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 66 A husband~man..hyryd men to his vyneȝorde for labour.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 337 In þis lond is plente of hony and of mylk and of wyn, and nouȝt of vyneȝerdes.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxvi. 97 A good man..whiche had an Aker of a vine yerd.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxiv. 6 They..gather the grapes out of his vynyarde, whom they haue oppressed by violence.
c1585 R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 45 Where no yarde is, there may be vynes growing, but there can bee no vineyarde.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 71 There is a right learned man that feareth lest hee have inconsideratly put this down in writing, as if this land were unfit for vineyards.
1660 J. Childrey Britannia Baconica 71 This Shire is very full of Vineyards.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. xl. 73 The good Grapes, which Compose part of our Gard'ning, and the common Grapes that grow in Vineyards.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 259 The vineyards begin to bear two years after their planting; and continue in heart fifty or sixty years.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 211 When they [sc. baboons] set about robbing an orchard or a vineyard,..they do not go singly to work.
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 218 We sought the elevated Cathedral, which stands without the town in the midst of vineyards.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 150 I was rather disappointed at Bonn, by the first sight of what sounds so poetically, a vineyard.
1878 R. W. Emerson Fortune of Republic in Wks. (1906) III. 387 The wine merchant has..also, I fear, his debts to the chemist as well as to the vineyard.
b. figurative. A sphere of action or labour, esp. of an elevated or spiritual character.Chiefly in allusion to passages of the New Testament, as Matthew xx. 1 and xxi. 28, 40.
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society > occupation and work > duties > [noun] > sphere of work, business, or activity
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spherea1616
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work field1684
purview1688
scope1830
coverage1930
shtick1965
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 98 Þis housbonde is God, and þis vyneȝerde is his Chirche.
c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 1293 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 37 Trawale þar-for all thi mycht in goddis wyne-ȝarde for to vyne feile folk þat bundine ar with syne.
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aiiijv This noble prince..whom God raysed for a Capitayne..vnder whose banner they myght ouercome theyr enemies and pourge his vineyarde from suche wycked weedes.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 467 Mr Ninian..was a faithful labourer in the Lordes vinȝard, ernist, and bissie.
1618 M. Baret (title) An hipponomie or the vineyard of horsemanship.
1628 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 295 Their principall merchants and factors, who are indeed the true labourers of their viniard, and th' other, if rightlie considred, no other then carriers.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. Pref. p. xviii Every Man..that had laboured all the heat of the day in the Vine-yard..was not..recompenced immediately according to their Merit.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 48 The vineyard of methodism lies before you.
1791 J. Hampson Mem. J. Wesley III. 110 The assiduity of the labourers in this vineyard was the chief visible cause of their success.
1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 12 Sincerely wishing you success in your labours in the vine~yard of humanity.
1905 ‘G. Thorne’ Lost Cause x The League 'll go safe enough, there'll always be labourers in the vineyard.
c. = vinea n. Obsolete. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed
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snail1408
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circlec1440
barbed-cat1489
mantle1489
mantlet1524
vine1565
tortoise1569
sow-guard1582
penthouse1600
penticle1600
target-roof1601
vinea1601
fence-roof1609
testudo1609
cat-house1614
vineyard1650
tortoiseshell1726
manta1829
cat1833
ram-house1850
tortoise-roof1855
bear1865
1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ix. 58 The pioners, working under long and thick boards, in the form of a Tortois, covered with raw hides to secure them from Granadoes (anciently called Vineyards, and Galleries) to enter the ditch.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as vineyard-culture, vineyard-dresser, vineyard-ground, etc.
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1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. x. sig. Vvvv.iiijv/2 The ministers of the Church are somtime called souldiers or vineyard-keepers.
1636 W. Prynne Unbishoping of Timothy & Titus 129 Like as an higher place is made for the vineyard keeper, to keepe the vineyard, so an higher place also is made for the Bishops.
a1704 T. Brown tr. Beroaldus Declam. in Def. Gaming in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) i. 146 Bacchus was made a God, a Vine-yard-keeper [etc.].
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Vitis I have seen in one Place in this Vineyard-Plot great Pieces of old Vines replanted after the aforesaid manner.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry (title page) A Method of introducing a Sort of Vineyard-Culture into the Corn-Fields.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vii. 29 Without which they could not give it [sc. corn] the Vineyard-Hoing.
c1820 S. Rogers Italy (1839) 41 As I rambled through thy vineyard-ground.
c1820 S. Rogers Italy (1839) 223 When on a vineyard-hill we lay concealed.
1849 K. H. Digby Compitum II. 361 Pope Urban I should be painted with grapes and a vine, being the patron of vineyardmen.
1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 539 And we believe we discern some lines of men descending Down through the vineyard-slopes.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 928/1 A French double vineyard plow.
C2. † vineyard leek n. Obsolete a wild species of leek.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > onion, leek, or garlic > leek > other types of leek
porretc1390
squirlea1400
ulpicc1440
unset leek1530
vineyard leek1562
sectile leek1716
long leek1842
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 102 The wild or wynyard leke is more hurtfull for the stomack then the comon leke.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Porrum The wild vineyard leek.
Derivatives
ˈvineyarded adj. enclosed as a vineyard; covered with vineyards.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [adjective] > having vineyards
vineyarded1820
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > as a vineyard
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1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 57 In that land inspired, Paled in and vineyarded from beggar-spies.
1886 F. Caddy Footsteps Jeanne D'Arc 83 One now walks from the train to the town by the side of vineyarded hill-slopes.
ˈvineyarding n. the cultivation of vineyards; vine-growing.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun]
vine-dressingc1440
vineyarding1870
viniculture1871
viticulture1872
1870 Congregationalist 19 May Profits of vineyarding in California.
ˈvineyardist n. one who engages in vine-growing.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > viticulture > [noun] > viticulturist
viner1390
vigneron1480
vine-man1550
vinitor1585
vine-master1588
vineroll1598
wine-farmer1789
wine-grower1844
vineyardist1848
viticulturist1882
viniculturist1888
viticulturer1907
1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 199 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI A French wine maker and vineyardist..from Kentucky.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 267 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The necessity of depending mainly upon professional vine~yardists.
1897 L. H. Bailey Princ. Fruit-growing 291 Careful vineyardists are able to continue the practice [of girdling] year after year without apparent injury to the vine.
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ˈVineyarder n. U.S. a native or inhabitant of the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of
New Englander1637
bayman1641
New English1647
Novangle1650
Novanglian1752
Yankee1765
cracker1766
Yank?1778
bushwhacker1809
tuckahoe1816
southerner1817
Yengees1819
muskrat1823
blue belly1827
half horse and half alligator1828
Southron1828
northerner1831
westerner1835
Northman1836
Easterner1838
Far-Wester1843
southwesterner1845
western1846
sand-hiller1848
Vineyarder1851
mountain boomer1859
Far Westerner1862
blue-nosed Yankee1866
Appalachian1888
sloper1892
Ozarkian1893
rebel1895
reb1897
Middle Westerner1899
hillbilly1900
Midwesterner1916
Ozarker1920
Geechee1926
Middle American1944
upstater1944
Mid-American1959
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxviii. 134 Three better, more likely sea-officers and men..could not readily be found, and they were every one of them Americans; a Nantucketer, a Vineyarder, a Cape man.
1987 Sci. Amer. Mar. 15/3 Most of the deaf Vineyarders shared three early colonists as ancestors.
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