Also vine branch. [VINE sb.] A branch of a vine-tree.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 11201. The vyne-braunche with alle here grapes.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., Table (1896), 15. Vyne braunchis, to enoynte.
1535. Coverdale, John xv. 6. He that abydeth not in me, is cast out as a vyne braunche.
1560. Bible (Geneva), Nahum ii. 2. The emptiers haue emptied them out, & marred their vine branches.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 685. He that gladly would in winter season weare a chaplet of vine branches.
1673–4. Grew, Anat. Pl., Anal. Trunks, i. § 8. In Summer time,… the Vessels also, in the Barque of a Vine-Branch, do Bleed a Sower Sap.
1691. Ray, Creation, II. (1692), 128. If in Summer time you denude a Vine-branch of its Leaves, the Grapes will never come to maturity.
1731. Miller, Gard. Dict., s.v. Vitis, That Bulk which they have acquir’d upon the Vine-branches.
1770. Langhorne, Plutarch (1851), II. 1107/1. He lifted up the vinebranch, with which the centurions chastise such as deserve stripes.
1818–22. Encycl. Metrop. (1845), XIV. 490/2. The vanilla is a plant of the thickness of a small vine branch.
1845. J. Coulter, Adv. in Pacific, xi. 133. Posts of wood, interlaced by vine branches.
