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.
The Anglo-Saxon name for October, the month for treading the wine-vats. In Domesday Book the vineyards are perpetually mentioned.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.