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ˈwine-press
[f. wine n.1 + press n.1 12. Cf. MLG. wînperse, MHG. wînpresse (G. weinpresse).]
A press in which the juice is extracted from the grapes in the manufacture of wine. Also fig., esp. with ref. to Isa. lxiii. 3, Rev. xiv. 19, 20, xix. 15.
1526Tindale Matt. xxi. 33 [He] set a vyneyarde, and hedged it rounde about, and made a wynpresse in it. 1584J. Melvill Autob. (Wodrow Soc.) 177 They haiff cast down the dyk, cutted the hedge, demolished the towre, brokin the wyne-pres. 1611Donne Ess. Div. (1651) 24 To put him [sc. Moses] in a wine-presse, and squeeze out Philosophy and particular Christianitie, is a degree of that injustice, which all laws forbid. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 16 As a swarm of flies..About the wine-press where sweet moust is powr'd. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 425 ⁋3 The succeeding Month [sc. October] was all soiled with the Juice of Grapes, as if he had just come from the Wine-Press. 1813Shelley Q. Mab vii. 218 Drunk from the winepress of the Almighty's wrath. 1849Froude Nem. Faith 107 He must tread the wine-press alone, calling no God-fearing man his friend. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 1140 In the United States the wine-press is constructed much on the same principle as the ordinary screw cider-press. 1910E. Barker in Encycl. Brit. VII. 524/2 [The Crusader] might butcher all day,..and then at nightfall kneel..at the altar of the Sepulchre—for was he not red from the winepress of the Lord?
Hence † ˈwine-presser.
1632Sherwood, A Wine-presser, pressureur. |