vintaging

English

Verb

vintaging

  1. present participle and gerund of vintage

Noun

vintaging (plural vintagings)

  1. The act of vintaging.
    • 1904, The Living Age - Volume 240, page 64:
      I stalked his vintagings, And here, to Bacchus vowed, alive he swings.
    • 1912, Jethro Bithell, Contemporary French Poetry, page 202:
      When I lifted mine eyes, far, far away, Thou it was turning the new-mown hay, Thou it was in the new vintagings, And it was thy step, all a shiver of wings.
    • 1916, Maxwell Gray, The World-mender: A Novel, page 74:
      "And in the days of Noah," the rector added, pausing in the act of choosing a cigar, "if not in salons, then at their marryings and feastings, their vintagings and gossipings round fountains while the pitchers ran over."
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