cider press

a press for crushing apples for cider.

Origin of cider press

First recorded in 1665–75

ciclopirox olamine, ciclosporin, cid, cid, el, cider, cider press, cider vinegar, cie, cie., cienfuegos, cife

The marc from the cider-press was sometimes fed to cattle combined with bran, hay and chaff.

Thomas Hardy's Dorset |Robert Thurston Hopkins
To make light wines put them at once into press, as apple pomace in a cider-press.

Soil Culture |J. H. Walden
One day I went to his house with three yoke of oxen to haul into place a heavy beam for a cider-press.

Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail |Ezra Meeker
In the pure, sweet October air they were gathering apples for the cider-press to-day.

Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 |Various

He felt thirsty, and heard a humming like the buzz of bees around the cider-press.

Old Caravan Days |Mary Hartwell Catherwood