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单词 wine press
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wine pressn.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪn prɛs/, U.S. /ˈwaɪn ˌprɛs/
Etymology: < wine n.1 + press n.1 2. Compare Middle Low German wînperse, Middle High German wînpresse (German weinpresse).
A press in which the juice is extracted from the grapes in the manufacture of wine. Also figurative, esp. with reference to Isaiah lxiii. 3, Revelation xiv. 19, 20, xix. 15.
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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
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxi. f. xxx [He] set a vyneyarde, and hedged it rounde obout, and made a wynpresse in it.
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 177 They haiff cast down the dyk, cutted the hedge, demolished the towre, brokin the wyne-pres.
a1631 J. Donne Ess. Divinity (1651) 24 To put him [sc. Moses] in a wine-presse, and squeeze out Philosophy and particular Christianitie, is a degree of that injustice, which all laws forbid.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 16 As a swarm of flies..About the wine-press where sweet moust is powr'd. View more context for this quotation
1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 425. ¶3 The succeeding Month [sc. October] was all soiled with the Juice of Grapes, as if he had just come from the Wine-Press.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vii. 96 Drunk from the winepress of the Almighty's wrath.
1849 J. A. Froude Nemesis of Faith 107 He must tread the wine-press alone, calling no God-fearing man his friend.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1140 In the United States the wine-press is constructed much on the same principle as the ordinary screw cider-press.
1910 E. Barker in Encycl. Brit. VII. 524/2 [The Crusader] might butcher all day,..and then at nightfall kneel..at the altar of the Sepulchre—for was he not red from the winepress of the Lord?

Derivatives

ˈwine-presser n. Obsolete
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > operator of press
presser1545
pressman?1611
wine-presser1632
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A Wine-presser, pressureur.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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