winepress
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“This is only the second such winepress discovered in Israel with a blessing inscription associated with the Samaritans.”
From Fox News • Feb. 28, 2019
“The location of the winepress is near the top of Tel Zur Natan, where remains of a Samaritan synagogue were found with another inscription, and reveals Adios' high status.”
From Fox News • Feb. 28, 2019
In addition to the winepress, archaeologists also discovered stone quarries with rock-cut depressions for cultivating grapevines.
From Fox News • Feb. 28, 2019
The great room is dominated by a six-foot-long stone fireplace capped by a mantel made from the same winepress that graces the front doorway.
From Time Magazine Archive
The world of the winepress and the silk-weaving and the soup-pot vanished from their hearts, and in its place came the illimitable calm which holds them bowed for hours against the altar-steps.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
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