wine press
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wine press
First recorded in 1520–30
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The house has a wood-paneled office with a coffered ceiling and a brick-floored wine cellar with an antique wine press.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Bunches of dark pinot noir grapes lie in wooden pallets stacked next to the wine press.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2023
It then passed through several owners until the Joliets bought the property, along with the house, Manoir de la Perrière, and the airy, barrel-vaulted cellar, complete with an imposing medieval wine press.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
Ms. Assaf’s building, experts later concluded, was standing above the largest-known wine press in the Crusader era — a revelation that drew the attention of a major Israeli newspaper, Haaretz.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2022
Some idea of the slaughter meant by the writer of the Revelations by "treading the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God," may be understood from ch. xiv.
From Five Pebbles from the Brook by George Bethune English
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