Winer

[f. WINE sb.¹ or v. + -ER¹.]

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1. A vintner. ? Obs.

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1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 395/2. God thanke you maister winer for your good wyne.

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1548. Aberd. Reg., XX. (Jam.). The winaris of the same gat.

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1886. Boston (Mass.) Jrnl., 1 Dec., 1/9. You gather a few tons of grapes and cast them to a winer and are told that it is a bad year for selling grapes.

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2. One who drinks wine. colloq.

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1906. Furnivall, in Lydgate’s Chron. Troy (1906), I. 309, marg. A winer is an unreasonable beast.

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1908. Daily Chron., 2 Oct., 4/4. The diners and the winers of those spacious days of conviviality.

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