Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Wyn-monath [Wine-month].

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Wyn-monath [Wine-month].
 
The Anglo-Saxon name for October, the month for treading the wine-vats. In Domesday Book the vineyards are perpetually mentioned.   1
 


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