grape-vine

plural grape-vines

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of grapevine (any sense).

   "The Strangler" is a wonderful wrestler, and throws his men with the "grape-vine, " a method closely resembling the Cumberland "hank."

   1893, James Muldoon, Muldoon's Wrestling, page 63

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   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.

   1844, Some Account of an Insects that Attacks the Grape-vine, page 201

   Many industrialists have noted that the structure of rumour transmission seems to be similar to its industrial counterpart—the grape-vine.

   2016, T. M. Lillico, Managerial Communication, page 67

present singular third person grape-vines · participle present grape-vining · participle past grape-vined · past grape-vined

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of grapevine (any sense).

   You grape-vine the opponent's right leg, twining it around from the back.

   1950, Guy Le Bow, The Wrestling Scene, page 43

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   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."

   1892, Charles Josiah Adams, Where is My Dog?: Or, Is Man Alone Immortal?, page 184

   As my despair grape-vined through the community friends called to reassure me.

   2006, Dov Peretz Elkins, Rosh Hashanah Readings, page 179

   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, Alastair Mars, Unbroken: The Story of a Submarine, page 80

   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.

   2008, Christine Carroll, The Senator's Daughter, page 97

   But word of the bomber had swiftly grape-vined Lower Midtown down to the NYU campus.

   2015, Brian Flager, Narrowing the East River