Vinyard

Pronunciation

Origin

vine + yard

Full definition of vinyard

Noun

1. Obsolete spelling of vineyard
• 1533 (1651 pub.), , ...therefore they who are more religiously and holily instructed, neither set a tree nor plant their vinyard, nor undertake any mean work without divine invocation...
• 1623,, Sir Francis Bacon, Letter to the DeciphererTo the garden,Whose western side, circummured with brick,Is with a vinyard back’d.To that vinyard is a planchéd gateThat makes his opening by a little doorWhich from the garden to the vinyard leads.
• 1788 (1876 pub.), Mrs. Godwin Senior (as quoted by Charles Kegan Paul), William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Henry S. King and Co. pub. (1876), p. 55...she may not be as the fig-tree whome the master of the vinyard came seeking fruit and found none.