grape-vine

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English

Noun

grape-vine (plural grape-vines)

  1. Alternative spelling of grapevine (any sense).
    • 1844, Some Account of an Insects that Attacks the Grape-vine, page 201:
      The leaves of the common creeper, Ampelopsis quinquefolia, a plant belonging to the same natural family as the grape-vine, appear to be their natural food.
    • 1893, James Muldoon, Muldoon's Wrestling, page 63:
      "The Strangler" is a wonderful wrestler, and throws his men with the "grape-vine, " a method closely resembling the Cumberland "hank."
    • 2016, T. M. Lillico, Managerial Communication, page 67:
      Many industrialists have noted that the structure of rumour transmission seems to be similar to its industrial counterpart—the grape-vine.

Verb

grape-vine (third-person singular simple present grape-vines, present participle grape-vining, simple past and past participle grape-vined)

  1. Alternative spelling of grapevine (any sense).
    • 1892, Charles Josiah Adams, Where is My Dog?: Or, Is Man Alone Immortal?, page 184:
      Then Old Fox was hitched with a mate to draw the hay on a wagon across a creek over which the cocks could not be "grape-vined."
    • 1950, Guy Le Bow, The Wrestling Scene, page 43:
      You grape-vine the opponent's right leg, twining it around from the back.
    • 2006, Dov Peretz Elkins, Rosh Hashanah Readings, page 179:
      As my despair grape-vined through the community friends called to reassure me.
    • 2008, Alastair Mars, Unbroken: The Story of a Submarine, page 80:
      The news of Bernard's presence had already been grape-vined round Gib., however, and in no time at all a couple of Army Intelligence oflicers came to whisk him away for interrogation.
    • 2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter, page 97:
      No longer did she go to the gym, where she and her girlfriends had donned Lycra tights and bras and sweated while they grape-vined left and right.
    • 2015, Brian Flager, Narrowing the East River:
      But word of the bomber had swiftly grape-vined Lower Midtown down to the NYU campus.
    • 2022, Maurice Walsh, The Spanish Lady:
      He tried hard, lifting Larry for a cross-buttock, but Larry grape-vined him smartly, and came to the ground safely.
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