vintager

American  

[vin-tuh-jer] / ˈvɪn tə dʒər /

noun

1. a person who helps in the harvest of grapes for winemaking.

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vintager British  

/ ˈvɪntɪdʒə /

noun

1. a grape harvester

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Etymology

Origin of vintager

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

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Example Sentences

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vintager

"I hope so, Goethe, and if the gods grant it, the great merit will belong to you, who have proved yourself a good vintager, and we will rejoice together in your glorious success."

From Old Fritz and the New Era by Peter Langley

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

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin

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

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

Observe with what indifference the people swallow the production of the distant vintager, the seaman, and the vintner, as if it were a thing of course.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No, indeed my attempt at writing did not come off at all to-day; the composition of a hunter or a vintager, whose shouts are echoing through my chamber, hateful and wearisome as the law-courts.

From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

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