grapevine
Origin of grapevine
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a town in N Texas.
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How to use grapevine in a sentence
At the winery, we had a full hookup for the RV on a gravel lot next to the grapevines.
How I learned to love RV travel in my 90s | Eleanor Goldman Lurensky | September 9, 2021 | Washington PostEven there, Oliver May, the manager of Discovery Vineyard in the Horse Heaven Hills, says that while growers tend to prefer hot years, there’s a limit to what any grapevines can take.
Pacific Northwest Wineries Are Shaking Off the Extreme Heat Wave, But Are Worried What It Means for the Industry’s Future | Megan McCluskey | July 1, 2021 | TimeCell phones and online journals are a way for hikers to communicate, but old-fashioned notebook communal-trail registers found in shelters remain an important part of the hiker grapevine.
Sometimes I find out through the grapevine that she made plans with other friends.
Miss Manners: I feel robbed of my potluck wedding | Judith Martin, Nicholas Martin, Jacobina Martin | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostThe grapevine and the international media were alight with the buzz of the student killed by the police during the demonstration.
Prince Harry has heard on the grapevine that UK pop star Cheryl Cole has a crush on him - and finds it pretty funny.
Every Afghan will know, through radio and the grapevine, the news that Americans burned the Quran.
U.S. Must Show It Respects Quran and Its Importance to Afghans | Jere Van Dyk | February 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST“I had heard that just from the grapevine so I went and asked her,” Morgan recalls.
So over the past four or five years, the censorship strategy shifted from memos to an “official grapevine” type of operation.
We had eaten our supper and were seated on the ground, under a high, branching tree into which was trained a huge grapevine.
Silver Chimes in Syria | W. S. NelsonWe briskly project ourselves to and fro in a swing of Nature's own contriving, namely, the tendrils of the wild grapevine.
Fibble, D. D. | Irvin Shrewsbury CobbWe need another axeman to clear away the fallen trees and break the nets of grapevine.
Audrey | Mary JohnstonA corpse was bound to it by a binding of grapevine and the two ends of the stretcher rested upon the shoulders of the bearers.
Pomo Bear Doctors | Samuel Alfred BarrettThe various applications recommended in this work for the destruction of insects, are useful on the grapevine.
Soil Culture | J. H. Walden
British Dictionary definitions for grapevine
/ (ˈɡreɪpˌvaɪn) /
any of several vitaceous vines of the genus Vitis, esp V. vinifera of E Asia, widely cultivated for its fruit (grapes): family Vitaceae
informal an unofficial means of relaying information, esp from person to person
a wrestling hold in which a wrestler entwines his own leg around his opponent's and exerts pressure against various joints
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