cotton press

American  

noun

1. a press for baling cotton.

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Etymology

Origin of cotton press

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Example Sentences

Across the street, and in the direction of the cotton press they proceeded.

From Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. by Thorne, Jack

We are now putting the finishing-stroke to your cotton press, which was fearfully out of order.”

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

"Better that than a cotton press," his mother said.

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South by Hope, Laura Lee

De menfolks said dey hitched up mules to run it, and dat dey had a cotton press inside de ginhouse.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

We were taken down to New Orleans and housed there ten days in a cotton press, arriving on Sunday afternoon in our prison garb.

From The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion by Swiggett, Samuel A.