vintager

[ vin-tuh-jer ]

/ ˈvɪn tə dʒər /

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

Origin of vintager

First recorded in 1580–90; vintage + -er¹

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

vintager

/ (ˈvɪntɪdʒə) /

a grape harvester