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ˈwine-vat
arch. -fat.
[f. wine n.1 + vat, fat n.1 Cf. (M)LG. wînfat, MHG. wînvaȥ (G. weinfass), ON. vínfat, etc.]
A vat in which the grapes are pressed in wine-making; a wine-press.
1526Tindale Rev. xix. 15 He trode the wynefatt of fearsnes. 1596Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 39 The must, Which he was treading in the wine-fats see. 1605B. Jonson Volpone v. iv, You should ha' some would swell, now, like a wine-fat, With such an Autumne. 1611Bible Mark xii. 1 A certaine man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine fat. a1746Holdsworth Rem. Virgil (1768) 22 In this dance, he flung himself into different postures, as if he was gathering the bunches of grapes,..flinging them into the wine-vat;..and drinking the must. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. iv. 214/2 The grapes are..emptied into a tub with holes at the bottom... This tub is placed over another much larger, named the wine-vat. 1881C. Rossetti Poems, Prodigal Son iii, The purple wine-fat froths with foam. |