vintager

[vin-tuh-jer]

noun

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

Origin of vintager

First recorded in 1580–90; vintage + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for vintager

She has her four meals a day, eats like a vintager, and takes her wine neat.
The Widow Lerouge|Emile Gaboriau
The vintager is not heard among the vines, nor the harvester on his threshing-floor of stone.
The Spirit of Place|Alice Meynell
In the olive season he helped in the gathering; in grape season he offered himself as vintager.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi|Paul Sabatier
In Northern work he is sometimes a vintager, sometimes beating the acorns out of an oak to feed swine.
The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), |John Ruskin

Epithet of Bacchus, "vintager;" here name of a person in the comedy of "Peace."
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)|Mrs. Sutherland Orr

British Dictionary definitions for vintager

vintager

noun

a grape harvester

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