Obs. or dial. [OE. wíntréow = ON. víntré, Goth. weinatriu: see WINE sb.1 and TREE sb.] A vine.

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  Also a local name for blackthorn and mountain ash.

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c. 950.  Lindisf. Gosp., John xv. 5. Ic am þæt wintreo, ʓie ða tuiggo sint.

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c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 2059. Me drempte, ic stod at a win-tre, Ðat adde waxen buȝes ðre.

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13[?].  Cursor M., 7159 (Gött.). Þair olyues wid þair wyn tres [Cott. vintres].

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1637.  Rutherford, Lett., to Lady Kilconquhair, 13 Sept. (1671), 151. It is better then a land of olives & wine-trees.

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1857.  Wright, Dict. Prov. Eng., Wine-tree, a vine. Norf.

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