vinyard

vine +‎ yard

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vinyard (plural vinyards)

1. Obsolete spelling of vineyard
   • 1533 (1651 pub.), Henry Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia

     […] 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 Decipherer

     To the garden,

     Whose western side, circummured with brick,

     Is with a vinyard back’d.

     To that vinyard is a planchéd gate

     That makes his opening by a little door

     Which 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.

"vinyard" in the Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G & C. Merriam, 1828.