winer
(ˈwaɪnə(r))
[f. wine n.1 or v. + -er1.]
1. A vintner. ? Obs.
| 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 395/2 God thanke you maister winer for your good wyne. 1548 Aberd. Reg. XX. (Jam.) The winaris of the same gat. 1886 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 1 Dec. 1/9 You gather a few tons of grapes and cast them to a winer and are told that it is a bad year for selling grapes. |
2. One who drinks wine. colloq.
| 1906 Furnivall in Lydgate's Chron. Troy (1906) I. 309 marg., A winer is an unreasonable beast. 1908 Daily Chron. 2 Oct. 4/4 The diners and the winers of those spacious days of conviviality. |