vintager
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vintager
Example Sentences
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He will separate thee from this present life, as the vintager gathers the cluster that would have rotted on the tree, and bears it to the wine-press to change it into perfumed wine.
From Thais by Robert B. (Robert Bruce) Douglas
The vintager is not heard among the vines, nor the harvester on his threshing-floor of stone.
From The Spirit of Place and Other Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
She has her four meals a day, eats like a vintager, and takes her wine neat.
From The Widow Lerouge by Émile Gaboriau
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
Vindemiatrix, ε Virginis, "the vintager or grape gatherer."
From A Field Book of the Stars by William Tyler Olcott
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