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The action or fact of pressing together in a crowd; a crowding together; a crush. Also figurative.
A frequent misreading of press, n.1 (cf. senses 6, 7 and 8 at that entry) in the E.E.T.S. edition of Destruction of Troy (39, 1869 and 56, 1874).