Brewer's: 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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