vintager

[ vin-tuh-jer ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

vintager

/ ˈvɪntɪdʒə /

First recorded in 1580–90; vintage + -er ¹

The vintager is not heard among the vines, nor the harvester on his threshing-floor of stone.

In the olive season he helped in the gathering; in grape season he offered himself as vintager.

No careless vintager shakes the precious berries rudely upon the soil, but he is promptly reminded of his slovenly work.

Epithet of Bacchus, "vintager;" here name of a person in the comedy of "Peace."

In Northern work he is sometimes a vintager, sometimes beating the acorns out of an oak to feed swine.

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