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Quotation dates: 1763-1822, 1896-1925
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†GARDEVINE, -vin, n. Also gardy-, -veen, guardevin(e), garduine. Arch.
1. A wine-bottle; a square bottle (Ayr. 1825 Jam.), gen. holding two quarts; “a large beautiful oblong-shaped glass bottle, used for holding spirits” (Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 219, gardy-vine); “a big-bellied bottle” (Dmf. 1825 Jam., gardevine).Sc. 1763 “Theophilus Insulanus” Treatises on the Second Sight (1819) 89:
Among other things a garduine of rum.Dmf. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun 93:
The Town-Clerk next, a fallow fine, Wha' ne'er loo'd water in his wine, Gart bring the great big gardevine.Ayr. 1822 Galt Provost xlvi.:
The mistress having set out the gardevin and tumblers, and the lass brought in the hot water. [Ayrshire Legatees (1821) 291, guardevine.]Fif. 1896 D. S. Meldrum Grey Mantle 214–15:
A tumbler and the gardevine for the dominie.Kcb. 1897 Crockett Lads' Love iv.:
He sat composedly in the “room” and sipped his toddy with the “guardevin” at his elbow.Sc. 1925 Cadger's Creel (ed. Douglas) 24:
I hae nae broo o' the gardevine mysel' — speerits is a tipple mair fit for caddies and chairmen than for gentrice.
2. A case or chest for holding wine-bottles or decanters (Sc. 1867 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. 246, gardyveen); “the sort of sarcophagus-shaped mahogany chest that stood under sideboards in old-fashioned houses, and in which the wine decanters were kept” (Mont.-Fleming); “a cellaret for containing wine and spirits in bottles” (Francisque-Michel 51).Kcb. 1900 Crockett Anna Mark iii.:
The great oaken guardevine . . . with its silver-capped square . . . bottles and shining ladles and rummers.
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