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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vintner
noun
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▪ But vintners made headway last year with the publication of new federal dietary guidelines that for the first time described those benefits.
▪ Each vintner will host a wine-tasting session.
▪ For years, vintners lobbied regulators without success for permission to advertise therapeutic or curative effects of wine.
▪ Ralemberg said he already had a buyer for the wine, a vintner living in Trinity.
▪ To make drinkable what wine was produced, the native vintners sweetened it with mulberries.
▪ With high demand and continuing short supply, Schofield said vintners are resorting to other measures.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vintner

Vintner \Vint"ner\, n. [OE. vintener, viniter, OF. vinetier, vinotier, LL. vinetarius, fr. L. vinetum a vineyard, fr. vinum wine. See Wine.] One who deals in wine; a wine seller, or wine merchant.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vintner

"wine merchant," c.1400 (late 12c. as a surname), alteration of Anglo-French vineter, Old French vinetier "wine-merchant; grape-harvester," from Medieval Latin vinetarius "a wine dealer," from Latin vinetum "vineyard," from vinum "wine" (see vine).

Wiktionary
vintner

n. 1 A seller of wine 2 A manufacturer of wine

WordNet
vintner

  1. n. someone who sells wine [syn: wine merchant]

  2. someone who makes wine [syn: winemaker, wine maker]

Usage examples of "vintner".

The tangled, vivid selfhoods of bees and vintners and young girls flowed down his throat like cinnamon fire, and left an aftertaste like a summer dawn.

Marston can discuss the finer points of obscure wines with vintners vacationing in Natchez, and an hour later put a crew of roughnecks on the floor of an oil rig with jokes that would make a sailor blush.

The Weavers did the hawk dance, the Scribes did the shambler dance, the Butchers did the bear dance, the Vintners did the rock-ape dance.

They were under contract to one of the finest vintners in the valley, and because they owned fertile land with the highest-quality vines, they received an excellent price for their crop.

There master Courtenay, sitting in his own chamber, gave his rede and master Justice Andrews, sitting without a jury in the probate court, weighed well and pondered the claim of the first chargeant upon the property in the matter of the will propounded and final testamentary disposition in re the real and personal estate of the late lamented Jacob Halliday, vintner, deceased, versus Livingstone, an infant, of unsound mind, and another.

But all he had in his VW truck were pipes and cans of tobacco and bottles of California wine from small vintners.

It would be a good name for a brewer, old vintner, old bull, old goat, old corn god, tree god, vine god.

He carried a bottle of ruby glass in which, so I heard him say, she might find a wine which a master vintner would envy.