Also 5 vinary, 6 vynery. [ad. med.L. vinārium (cf. VINER1 and OF. vignerie) or f. VINE sb. + -ERY.]
† 1. A vineyard. Also in fig. context. Obs.
c. 1420. Lydg., Commend. Our Lady, 45. Paradys of plesaunce, gladsom to all good,… Vinarye envermailyd.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. (1811), 511. The kyng shuld haue in recompencement of his wrongys, the erledam of Bygorre, & the vynery of Ramer.
2. A glass house or hot-house constructed for the cultivation of the grape-vine. Also attrib.
1789. Abercrombie (title), The Hot-House Gardener on the … Methods of forcing Early Grapes,… and other Choice Fruits, in Hot-Houses, Vineries, Fruit-Houses, Hot-Walls, &c.
1805. Loudon, Improv. Hot-Houses, 34. A considerable depth [of flue] may generally be obtained … in vineries and peach houses. Ibid. (1842), Suburban Hort., 215. A vinery twenty-five feet long by thirteen feet six inches wide in the roof.
1879. Florist & Pomologist, March, 37/2. A three-quarters span or hipped roof vinery…. For general purposes there is no better form of vinery than this.
3. Vines collectively.
1883. Cent. Mag., XXVI. 729. Overgrown with masses of vinery.
1895. Outing, XXVI. 445/1. Its ruins … are overgrown with vinery and bushes.
