vbl. sb. [f. VINTAGE v.] The action or process of gathering the grapes at the vintage.
1830. H. N. Coleridge, Grk. Poets (1834), 218. Then follow successive representations of a city at peace,… of reaping, of sheaf-binding, of vintaging.
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., III. 280. And timorous must he let the time go by For vintaging.
1890. O. Crawfurd, Round Calendar in Portugal, 197–8. The maize-harvest … comes just after the vintaging of the grapes.
