cider press


noun
  1. a press for crushing apples for cider.

Origin of cider press

1
First recorded in 1665–75

Words Nearby cider press

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How to use cider press in a sentence

  • One day I went to his house with three yoke of oxen to haul into place a heavy beam for a cider-press.

  • Now, don't get in your mind no wrong apparitions of a office deputy doing sums in a book or mashing letters in a cider press.

    Sixes and Sevens | O. Henry
  • To make light wines put them at once into press, as apple pomace in a cider-press.

    Soil Culture | J. H. Walden
  • And the old cider-press, and that Noahs ark of a sideboard that we never can use, added Constance.

    Three Little Women | Gabrielle E. Jackson
  • In many places were piled up little mountains of apples, destined chiefly for the cider press.

    Impressions of America | Tyrone Power