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† pressour Obs.
Also 4–6 -ure, 5 -ur, 6 -or, (4 presour, 5 prassur).
[a. OF. pressor, -our, -eur, variants of pressoir (12th c. in Littré):—late L. pressōrium a press for wine, oil, etc., n. use of neut. of pressōrius adj., f. press-, ppl. stem of premĕre to press: cf. pressor. See also presser.]
1. An apparatus or instrument for pressing or squeezing.
a. A wine- or oil-press: = press1 12 a.
a1340Hampole Psalter lv. 1 Haly kirke as a grape in þe pressure cries god hafe mercy of me. 1382Wyclif Matt. xxi. 33 Ther was an husbondman, that plantide a vyne ȝerd,..and dalue a pressour [v.r. pressure, 1388 presour] therynne. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 666/14 Hoc torcular, prassur. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. xvii. (1869) 184 It is streyned in a pressour [F. pressouer]. 1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. (1568) 46 b, Presse them in a faire white linnen cloth in a pressour, vntyll there issue out a very cleare oyle. 1570Levins Manip. 192/45 A Préssure, pressorium.
b. = press n.1 11 a.
1362[see press n.1 11 a]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. lxxv. (1495) ll ij/2 Chese eten after meete thurstyth dounwarde þe meete as it were a pressour.
c. fig.
1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 15897 In a pressour off gret peyne They kan ful offte A man dystreyne. c1445― Nightingale 304 The strong pressour of oure Redempcioun, On whiche the bloode downe be his sides Ranne.
2. A clothes-press, a cupboard: = press n.1 15.
1471in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 154 Unum pressur in alta camera mea. 1551Knaresborough Wills (Surtees) I. 59 My sone to have one pressour. 1564in Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 218, I geue him my pressor, my gownes my surpless, my ij furred amysis..and all other rayments apperteynyng vnto me. |