Also 7 vinia. [L. vīnea: see VINE sb.] A kind of protective shed or penthouse anciently used in siege-operations.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 406. How to approch the walls of their enemies, to give an assault under a frame devised for the purpose, which thereupon took the name Vinea.
1614. Gorges, trans. Lucan, III. 106. Their Vinias to the wall they brought, Couerd with greene turfes all aloft.
1678. Phillips (ed.).
1718. Rowe, trans. Lucan, III. 721. Beneath the Vinea close th’ Assailant lies.
1783. W. Gordon, trans. Livy’s Rom. Hist., II. xvii. (1809), 130. The Vineae and other works were repaired.
1885. Oman, Art War, 47. The vinea and testudo, the catapult onager and balista, were as well known in the tenth century as in the first.
