vint

1 of 2

transitive verb

ˈvint

-ed/-ing/-s

: to make (wine) from fruit

cherry-wine vinted in the … forest

—O. E. Schniebs

vint

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noun

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plural -s

: a card game resembling whist and similar to auction bridge in its bidding that has every trick scored and on a failed bid has the declarer score as usual while the adversaries score 100 times the value for their tricks

called also Russian whist

Word History

Etymology

Transitive verb

probably back-formation from vintage

Noun

Russian, probably from Yiddish, literally, wind, from Middle High German wint, from Old High German

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