Obs. rare. Also 5 vintayne. [a. OF. vintaine, -eine, -ene, (also mod.F.) vingtaine (= Pr. and Pg. vintena, Sp. veintena), f. vingt twenty.] A company of twenty soldiers, etc.
13[?]. Sir Beues (A.), 3367. Make we þre vintaine, Þat be gode and certaine! Þe ferste ich wile me self out lede.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxv. 114. Þai er wele arayd and ordaynd by thowsands, hundreths and vintaynes.
