vinestock

I am yet able to make thee a threefold offering; despite my age I could plant a long row of vines for you; then beside these some tender cuttings from the fig; finally a youn, vinestock, loaded with fruit, and all around the field olive trees, to furnish us with oil wherewith to anoint us both at the New Moons.

The Acharnians 2000

I tell you, Apollo is a gardener who knows how to prune a vinestock.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

Through this assumption we are in Him, as the branches in the vinestock [1059]; and unless He had become the Vine, we could have borne no good fruit.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

When is looks for a vineyard, he takes into account the vineyard looks, the vinestock, the apparent quality of the pruning and vineyard management, the vigor and age of the plot.

Wine Tasting, Vineyards, in France 2008

"Though," said Midylos to me, "he's not much past sixty, and as tough as an old vinestock.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978