vintner
(ˈvɪntnə(r))
Forms: α. 5 vyntenere, -tyner, 5–6 -tener, 6 -tenar (Sc. ventennar), 6–7 vintener; 6 vyntoner, 7 vintoner. β. 5–6 vyntner(e, 6– vintner (8 vinctner).
[Alteration of vinter.]
One who deals in or sells wine; a wine-merchant; † an innkeeper selling wine.
| α c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 211 Masouns, carpenterys, of Yngelond and of Fraunce, Bakerys, browsterys, vyntenerys, with fressh lycour. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 510 Vyntenere, vinarius. c 1470 Cath. Angl. 402/1 (Add. MS.), Vyntyner. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 25 Or as the vyntenar gyueth frely to his customers or byers a taste of his wyne. 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 91 No vyntoner shuld set any wyne a broche. 1587 Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 149 Such [wine] as was anie waies mingled or brued by the vintener. 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. 156 They had not our Vinteners fraud to mixe their Wines. 1636 J. Taylor (Water P.) Trav. Signes Zodiack A v b, All the worthy Company of Vintoners. 1669–70 Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 301 One Mr. Wadlow, a vintener,..was represented as notoriously faulty. |
| β c 1460 Promp. Parv. (Winch. MS.), Vyntnere, vinarius. 1483 Cath. Angl. 402/1 A vyntner.., vinitor, merothecarius. 1548 Cooper Elyot's Dict., Oenopola,..a tauerner or vintner. 1570 B. Googe Pop. Kingd. iv. (1880) 54 Straight after this comes Vrban in, the Vintners God deuine. 1592 Greene Upst. Courtier G ij, Now sir for the vintner, hee is an honest substantiall man, a friend to al good fellowes. 1605 Breton Old Man's Lesson B ij, The Vintner, the Grocer, the Comfit-maker,..doe by the venting of their wares, the better maintaine their trades. 1657 Trapp Comm. Job xxxiii. 3 They..may here learn..not to huckster the Word of God, or corrupt it with their own mixtures, as Vintners do their wines. 1687 Lond. Gaz. No. 2285/4 Charles Courtney..Vintner and Innholder. 1725 W. Halfpenny Sound Building List of Subs., Mr. Peter Hudson, of Richmond, Vinctner. 1772 Johnson in Boswell 6 April, Mr. Pitt might think it an advantageous thing for him to make him a vintner, and get him all the Portugal trade; but [etc.]. 1810 Crabbe Borough v. 195 Uncheck'd, the vintner still his poison vends. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 633 Once, merely from a malignant whim, he staved all the wine in a vintner's cellar. 1880 Dixon Windsor III. xxxi. 306 A vintner was a big man in Elizabeth's time. |
† b. merchant vintner. (
Cf. merchant n. 1 and merchant tailor, etc.)
Obs.| 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 6 If at the tyme of any suche sale of Wyne purposed to be made, the merchaunt vyntener, or other owner..thereof, do..declare [etc.]. 1600 Chester Pl. Proëm. (Shaks. Soc.) 4 And you, worthy marchauntes vintners that nowe have plenty of wine, Amplifye the storie of those wise Kinges three. |
Hence
ˈvintneress, a female vintner.
ˈvintnership, the occupation or position of a vintner.
ˈvintnery, the trade of a vintner; wine-selling.
| 1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 89 Hosts and Vint'neresses looke to your score. 1673 O. Walker Educ. 67 He that lives abstemiously..needs not study the wholesomnes of this meat,..nor is critical in cookery and vintnership. 1816 Struthers Poet. Wks. (1850) I. 148 Before engaging in the tempting career, let them consider..how they will enjoy a Vintnership. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. ii, Unless..the father of him did, in an unexceptionable manner, perform Cookery and Vintnery in the Village of Ouarville. |