单词 | pressour |
释义 | † pressourn. Obsolete. 1. a. An oil press or wine press. Cf. press n.1 2a.Recorded earliest in pressourhouse n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. CompoundsΚΠ 1348 [see sense 1a]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1348 |
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