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c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 19 Her ys ettul mann & win~drincende.

a1100 Aldhelm Glosses i. 2652 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 72/1 Cauponibus, i. negotiatoribus, wintæpperum.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Kings xxv. 12 Wyne makers, and erthtiliers.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. clxxxviii Wyne drinkinge vntemperatlych is to man kinde..venym.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 697/20 Hic vinitor, a wynmaker.

1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 33 Frederik the wyn criar.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Joel i. 5 Mourne all ye wyne suppers, because of youre swete wyne.

1550 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 76 Wyne selling, or ony vther mercheandice.

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Vendimiador A wine maker.

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 192 The successors of those Uintners and wine Drawers..were all incorporated by the name of wine tunners, in the 15. of Henry the sixt.

1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 329 A wine-like iuyce.

1604 Meeting of Gallants sig. C^v This strange Wine-sucker.

1607 G. Wilkins Miseries Inforst Mariage iii. D 4 Scrape~trencher,..Wine-spiller.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Taste-vin, A Broker for Wine marchants, a wine-cunner.

1639 R. Younge Sinne Stigmatizd 313 These wine-worshippers will be at it on their knees.

1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 41 Wine-yielding-fruits.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xl. 267 My..aunt Hervey had..given us to apprehend much disagreeable evil..from a wine-lover.

1814 P. P. Carnell (title) A treatise on family winemaking.

1825 W. Scott Talisman viii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 163 Ye beef-devouring, wine-swilling English mastiffs.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. vii. 310 An honest wine-vender.

1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xiv. 150 The wine-producing districts.

1855 E. B. Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note S. 473 Some consecrated virgins pleaded for their wine-drinking that it was the element used in the Sacrament.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1136 The great wine~producing district of Burgundy.

1881 V. Lush Jrnl. 27 Aug. (1975) 245 If life and health be spared to us, wine-making will become hence~forth like jam making and fruit tinning, one of the fixed employments of the Autumn.

1895 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 506 As early as 1141 we hear of the wine criers..being an organised body in France.

1900 J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. XI. 206 A robust-looking man, by occupation a wine-bottler.

1921 ‘L. H. Davison’ Movement in European Hist. iv. 43 The Romans of Latium were short, dark men of the wine~loving lands.

1935 A. G. Macdonell Visit to Amer. x. 183 California could produce a vin ordinaire to sell at thirty or forty [cents]. If she did, she would gradually build up a great community of wine drinkers.

1949 C. Graves Ireland Revisited x. 151 The traditional story about James Lynch Fitzstephen is that he was a leading wine-shipper in Galway.

1959 E. H. Clements High Tension ii. 21 My family were wine-importers with offices in London, Edinburgh and Bordeaux.

1972 Times 27 Nov. (Wines & Spirits Suppl.) p. viii/5 With their large number of outlets they could go direct to wine growers on the Continent, by-passing the wine shippers.

1979 A. Maling Koberg Link (1980) xxv. 135 ‘We have vineyards.’.. ‘Tough business, winemaking.’

1980 Times 27 Nov. 21/1 A wine-loving traveller.

1981 W. J. Burley House of Care i. 6 His job with a firm of London wine importers.

1983 Listener 14 July 18/3 Burgundy and Bordeaux are still the British wine~drinker's dream lands.