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

Example Sentences

The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours.

From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith

Gauguin uttered the paradox, "Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece," and the novelist Elémir Bourges cried, "This is the painting of a vintager!"

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

Vindemiatrix, ε Virginis, "the vintager or grape gatherer."

From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler

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 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Let me Pomona's plenteous blessings crop, And see rich autumn's ripen'd burden drop, Till Bacchus with full clusters crowns the year, And gladdens with his load the vintager.

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel