Obs. [Obscurely related to VINTENARY or VINTENER.] (See quots.)
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 275. The whole country [i.e., the Isle of Wight] is divided into eleven parts: and every of them hath their severall Centoner, as one would say Centurion, their Vintons also, leaders as it were of twenty.
1751. Eng. Gazetteer, s.v. Wight-Island, The militia here is divided into 11 bands, over each of which is an officer, called a centurion, though he commands more than 100 men; and the inferior officers are called vintons.
