cotton press
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cotton press
An Americanism dating back to 1800–10
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A lot of people say you couldn’t make a wooden cotton press that would pack a bale of cotton.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 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 Samuel A. Swiggett
The cotton press is the first thing you get your eyes on when you approach a plantation, and then the gin house next.
From History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service by John R. Kinnear
There are exports of cotton and saltpetre; and the town has a steam cotton press.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
His maternal grandfather, Jacob Marshall, was the inventor of the cotton press, an invention originally made, however, for pressing hops.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. Boutwell
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