vineyard

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"The _personnel_ of our vineyard is abundant, but there are various sour grapes growing about.

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  1. noun Ground planted with cultivated grapevines.
  2. noun A sphere of spiritual, mental, or physical endeavor.

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  • He had reached the edge of the little vineyard, and was about to cross a tangle of briers and stubble, when something caught his eye in the thicket; it was a man's face--and he stopped For a minute they stared at each other, making no movement, no sound Sir Thorald!" —  Lorraine A romance
  • They had cut him off from turning through Moro's orchard or Betts's vineyard, and so there was nothing for the fleet-footed fox but to keep steadily to the west and give his pursuers no chance to make a cut-off on him. —  The Hoosier School-boy
  • He cultivates the vineyard, and the owner takes half the produce; but for a consideration the man lets the small house in the Via di Santa Sabina to persons who are fond of vineyards and solitude. —  Stradella
  • It was Tommaso's fault for leaving the back door open to the vineyard, and Altieri fastened it inside, so I broke in through the window to save you! —  Stradella
  • If the fig tree represents the covenant people, then the vineyard is naturally the world at large, and the dresser of the vineyard is the Son of God, who by personal ministry and solicitous care makes intercession for the barren tree, in the hope that it may yet bear fruit. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
 

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  1. Formerly also vinyard; from Middle English vyneʒerde; from vine + yard; substituted for the earlier wineyard, q. v.
 

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/ˈvɪnyərd/
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