单词 | wine press |
释义 | wine pressn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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? DerivativesΘΚΠ 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). < n.1526 |
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