Obs. Also 7 vinetor, vineyetour. [a. L. vīnitor, f. vīnum wine.] A vine-grower.
1559. Abp. Sandys, Serm., iii. (1585), 48. Nowe it behooueth the vinitor to take great heede what vine he planteth in this vineyard.
1595. Charldon, Fulfordo et Fulfordæ, 33. This skilfull vinitor … hath caused the stones that pestered the vineyard to bee gathered out.
1606. True & Perf. Relat., D dd 3. The branch beares fruit no longer then it continues in the naturall and proper Vine … cut and pruined by the same Vinetor.
1624. Capt. Smith, Virginia, IV. 155. The Vineyard our Vineyetours had brought to a good forwardnesse.
1631. R. H., Arraignm. Whole Creature, xvi. 280. Had not Iezabel … made him a Potion and Caudell of the bloud of the Vinetor, and Grapes of the Vineyard.
