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单词 pressour
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pressourn.

Forms: Middle English prassur, Middle English presour, Middle English pressoure, Middle English pressur, Middle English pressure, Middle English–1500s pressor, Middle English–1500s pressure, Middle English–1600s pressour; Scottish pre-1700 persour, pre-1700 pressoir.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pressur.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pressur, presur, Anglo-Norman and Middle French pressor, pressour, pressoir (end of the 12th cent. in Old French as presoir , pressoir , pressor ; French pressoir ) < post-classical Latin pressorium press for clothes (4th cent.), press in figurative sense (4th or 5th cent. in Augustine), press for wine, oil, etc. (12th cent.; frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), use as noun of neuter of classical Latin pressōrius (adjective) used for pressing < press- , past participial stem of premere to press (see press v.1) + -ōrius -ory suffix2. Compare post-classical Latin pressura wine press (12th cent.), cider-press (from 1211 in British sources), clothes-press (1395, 1410, 1454 in British sources), printing press (16th cent. in British and continental sources). Compare presser n.1Compare also the following isolated example of a direct borrowing from post-classical Latin pressorium (compare -ory suffix2):c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate 15 O's Christ (Laud Misc. 683) l. 315, in Minor Poems (1911) i. 249 O Iesu, named plentyvous grape and vyne, Wich on the cros for our Redempcyoun In a pressorye, pressid with gret pyne, Copyously the rede lycour ran down.
Obsolete.
1.
a. An oil press or wine press. Cf. press n.1 2a.Recorded earliest in pressourhouse n. at Compounds.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > press extracting liquids
pressour1348
press1373
apple mill1654
oil pressc1720
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > oil-press or -mill
pressour1348
press1373
oil mill?1440
oil pressc1720
wedge-press1844
pogy-press1880
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > wine-press
wringc890
pressour1348
press1373
calcatoryc1420
wine press1526
wine-vat1526
presser1570
vine-press1587
grape-press1615
1348 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 96 (MED) [A house called] la Pressourhous [and a wine press].
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xxiv. 11 Among þe hipelis of hem þei resteden in myddai, þe whiche thristen þe pressouris [L. torcularibus] tredid.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Joel iii.13 Cum ȝe and discende ȝe, for the pressoure is ful.
a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 666 Hoc torcular, prassur.
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 184 (MED) It thinketh it is streyned in a pressour [Fr. un pressour] shet with a vys and loken.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lv. 1 Halykirke as a grape in the pressure cries.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 46 b Presse them in a faire white linnen cloth in a pressour, vntyll there issue out a very cleare oyle.
1602 J. Colville Parænese 88 A graip consauit in the vynetree of a virginall vomb, hauing no pressoir bot a potence or cross.
b. figurative.
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c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 163 (MED) He haþ þe pressoure [Fr. le pressur du vin] of goddes wraþþe.
a1456 J. Lydgate Seying of Nightingale (Trin. Cambr.) 304 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 232 (MED) His crosse..is..Þe strong pressour of oure redempcycoun.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 15897 (MED) In a pressour off gret peyne, They kan ful offte A man dystreyne.
c. gen. A device for compressing, flattening, etc., a substance by exerting pressure; = press n.1 1a.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > press
pressoura1398
press1674
presser1740
squeezer1839
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 316 Sourissh þinges..laxeþ after mete, and þe cause is for þey bereþ doun þe mete, as it were a pressour oþer a wrynge.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. v. 127 (MED) Among þe riche rayes I rendrit a lessoun, Brochide hem wiþ a pakke nedle & pleit hem togidere, Putte hem in a pressour [v.rr. presse, pryson] & pynnede hem þereinne, Til ten ȝardis oþer twelue tollide out þrittene.
a1451 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1865) III. 100 (MED) Item, j pressour debilis, j d.
1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xiv. 97 The Press-mould consisteth of..1. Two clay-boxes. 2. Two Receit tables. 3. One Screw. 4. Two Pressours. 5. Foure Anti-pressoures [etc.].
2. A cupboard, a wardrobe. Cf. press n.1 10.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > recessed
thirla1300
pressc1387
pressour1444
presser1503
bow closet1759
1444 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 100 (MED) Lego eidem j pressur pro pannis custodiendis existentem in le forchaumbre.
1454 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 171 (MED) To the makyng of a presour for the capys to be kepyd in, iij l.
1551 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 59 I wull yt..my sone have one pressour.
1564 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 218 I geue him my pressor, my gownes my surpless, my ij furred amysis..and all other rayments apperteynyng vnto me.

Compounds

pressourhouse n. Obsolete a building containing a wine press.
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1348 [see sense 1a].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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