† ingenion.
/ɪnˈdʒiːnɪəʊ/ Obsolete. † b. transferred. A machine or mill for making cider.
a. A sugar-mill, sugar-factory, or sugar-works (in the West Indies).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > place where
ingenio1600
sugar-house1600
sugar-works1604
sugar-garden1613
sugary1696
sugar-bakery1794
sugar-bakehouse1816
purgery1844
usine1858
1600 R. Hakluyt tr. F. Cieça de Corvalho in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 718 Building his owne Ingenios or sugar-milles.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 630 His provisions for his Ingenewes or Sugar-gardens.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 732 Oviedo reckons almost thirty Ingenious, the number daily increasing.
1672 W. Hughes Amer. Physitian 30 The Mill, Machine or Ingenio, where they squeeze them.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 373 They had an Ingenio, that is to say a Sugar-house, or Sugar Work.
1887 N. D. Davis Cavaliers & Roundheads Barbados 88 What we now call the Buildings or the Sugar Works, were at first known as the Ingenio.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > cider-making > [noun] > mill or press
wringc890
presser1570
pound1627
stone-case1664
ingenio1669
cider press1673
hopper axis1808
fruit-mill1874
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 139 These Ingenioes are curiously made by Henry Allen at the Cabinet in Exeter-street..in the Strand.
1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 82 (heading) The description of the Ingenio or Cider-Mill in Fig. I.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 574 A New invented Ingenio or Mill, for the more expeditious and better making of Cider.
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