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  • noun Plural form of vinery.

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Examples

  • There are three modes of pruning and training the vine; but the best for vineries is what is called the spurring-in system.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

  • It is something to think about, when he is travelling and the vineries are holding back the best bottles for him to try and review.

    Does the Wine Advocate buy over $700,000 worth of wine a year? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

  • Still, when I saw the LADY WITH EARS telling me and us all that we could go screw ourselves I felt like I felt in the 1980s in Russia when under the enlightened leadership of the Spotty Gorby they burned the grape vineries in the apotheosis of the campaign against drinking.

    On My Word of Honor 2007

  • And the great big house in the country, which Digory had heard of all his life and never seen would now be their home; the big house with the suits of armour, the stables, the kennels, the river, the park, the hot-houses, the vineries, the woods, and the mountains behind it.

    The Magician's Nephew Lewis, C. S. 1955

  • There was little evidence now of the destructive hand of war, except that no one was working in the orchards and vineries, and the inhabitants of the small native villages through which we passed mostly remained behind closed doors, with not even an inquisitive eye at the window.

    With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

  • You wander through a boundless maze of rising vineries curling their budding tendrils around the trellis-work, and terrace above terrace up the declivities of the mountains.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 Various

  • He sat dreaming in the trellised vineries, or wandered with his host along the walks overhung by carefully trimmed shade-trees.

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • Below, the Bath slumbered darkly in the shadow of its ancient steps and its encircling belt of fir-trees; and beyond the flower-gardens, half-an-acre of pineries, and vineries, and orchard-houses glittered in a dazzling parterre of glass-roofs and white paint.

    Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron

  • The vineries here are so well enclosed, that there is no way of access except by scaling the mud-wall: the vines are planted in trenches; a row on each side, and allowed to run over the elevated spaces between the trenches.

    Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

  • Shortly afterwards we left the River Tweed for a time while we walked across the hills to Galashiels, and on our way to that town we came to a railway station near which were some large vineries.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

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