wine press

[ wahyn pres ]

/ ˈwaɪn ˌprɛs /

a machine in which the juice from grapes is pressed for wine.

Sometimes wine press·er.

Origin of wine press

First recorded in 1520–30

Some were blooming, others had only begun to form fruit-buds, while some were loaded with ripe clusters ready for the wine-press.

Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca |Homer
At the right, in the foreground, stands a wine-press and near it are a couple of straw-bottomed chairs.

Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series |August Strindberg
August, with his feet in the wine-press, gathers the grapes.

Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice |Edward A. Freeman
He treads nations as grapes in a wine-press, and his garments are stained with their life's blood.

Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1 (of 3) |Theodore Parker

But our High Priest sufficeth, and hath trodden the wine-press alone.

Robin Tremayne |Emily Sarah Holt