Also 4 vintre, 4–5 vyntre, 4–6 vyne-tree (5–6 Sc. wyne-). [VINE sb.] A tree of the genus Vitis bearing grapes. Also fig.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 7159. And sua þair corns did he brin, þair oliues, wit þair vintres.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter cxxvii. 3. Þi wife as vyntre haboundand in sides of þi house.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, vi. (Thomas), 401. Ensampil tane ma be sufficiandly be þe wyne-tre.
1483. Cath. Angl., 402/1. A vyne tree, argitis, propago, vitis.
1501. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., II. 105. To the Franch man that set the wyne treis in Strivelin, xiiij s.
1576. Fleming, Panopl. Epist., 356. The Vinetree hath yeelded her purple grapes, by clusters.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 519. The manner how to graffe a Vine tree.
1624. Fisher, in F. White, Repl., 340. The Saints being but branches of Christ Iesus, the true Vinetree.
1786. G. Frazer, Fall of Man, 136. You will be as a fruitful vine-tree.
1786. Abercrombie, Arrangem., 43, in Gard. Assist. Evergreen Trees and Shrubs, Proper for … shrubberies,… &c. [include] … Vine tree, winged leaved.
1813. Q. Rev., IX. 159. Oft to mark, with curious eye, If the vine tree’s time be nigh.
