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单词 wine-vat
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wine-vatn.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪnvat/, U.S. /ˈwaɪnˌvæt/
Forms: archaic -fat.
Etymology: < wine n.1 + vat n.1, fat n.1 Compare (Middle) Low German wînfat, Middle High German wînvaȥ (German weinfass), Old Norse vínfat, etc.
A vat in which the grapes are pressed in winemaking; a wine press.
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1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. xix. 15 He trode the wynefatt of fearsnes.
a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii. xxxix, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii2 The must, Which he was treading in the wine-fats see.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone v. vi. sig. M3v You should ha' some would swell, now, like a wine-fat, With such an Autumne. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Mark xii. 1 A certaine man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine fat . View more context for this quotation
a1746 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. 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.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator 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.
1881 C. Rossetti Pageant & Other Poems 109 The purple wine-fat froths with foam.
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