Middle English Dictionary Entry
vinter n.
Entry Info
| Forms | vinter n. Also vintere, vineter(e, viniter & (in surnames) vinther, vinetar, vinetier, veneter, vunter, wineter(e; pl. vinter(e)s, etc. & winteris. |
| Etymology | OF vinetier, AF vineter, viniter, vinter. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. vintner n.
1.
(a) A wine merchant; a vintner; marchaunt ~;
(b) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11226 : Hii breke fram ende to oþer & dude al to robberie; Vor þe mer was viniter, hii breke þe viniterie.
- (1332) Sub.R.Lond.in Unwin Finance65 : Hugo Bener, viniter.
- (1390) Doc.Beverley in Seld.Soc.1433 : Ordinatum est…quod quilibet artifices…viz. mercers…vynters, sadilers…and workmen habeant suos ludos et pagentes paratos…qualibet die in festo Corporis Christi.
- (1402) in Madox Firma Burgi (1726)74 : Thomae Megson de Wakefeld, Vyniter.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.5794 : Þe honour and þe reuerence Is reysed most…Among wynteris in euery maner lond, Be-cause he [Bacchus] is to hem so gracious.
- (1428) EEWills79/24 : Of this my present testament I make and ordeigne myn executours…Richard Banaster And Edmond Scheffild, Citezins and vineters of the forsaid cite, all and euerich aboue expressid iustly to complete and treuly to spede.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)149 : Of merchauntz vynteres that sellyn her vynes out of celeres…ne of merchauntz woderes…her hostes moun no thyng takyn.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)41/2 : Alle oþere men of craft, as fullerys, mercerys, grocerys, vynterys, pedderys, owyn to payin þe tythe.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)158 : Is she thanne…a vintere, that to assaye wynes entermeteth hire?
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)106 : John Gylott, vynter, he made ij wevers to be take, the whyche folowyd the same waye of heresy.
- a1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306)73 : Or he went to the see, he toke a gentilman of the Temple that was called Nevell, and John Goode felaue, vinter, and oþer viij persones.
b
- (c1170) Cart.Oseney in OHS 89334 : Saulfus uineter.
- (1205) Close R.Tower 1266 : Walterus le Vinetier.
- (1212) in Fransson Surn.79 : Will. Wineter.
- (1247-8) Assize R.Lan.in LCRS 49281 : Luke le Vunter.
- (1263) Feet Fines Sus.in Sus.RS 746 : Stephm. le Veneter.
- (1276) Hundred R.Tower 14 : Abellus Vinetar.
- (1296-7) Acc.Cornw.in RHS ser.3.66118 : Radulpho le vynther quia.
- (1320) Feet Fines Kent in Archaeol.Cant.14264 : Robert le Wynetere.
- (1329) Court R.Colchester 191 : Matilda la Vinetere.
- (1345) in Rymer's Foedera (1816-69)3.42 : Thomas, frater Roberti Vyneter.