winepress

English

Alternative forms

• wine-press

Etymology

From Middle English wyne-presse, equivalent to wine +‎ press.

Noun

winepress (plural winepresses)

1. A press used to extract juice from grapes as the first step of winemaking.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 24:11:

     Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepreſſes, and ſuffer thirſt.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 14:19:

     And the Angel thruſt in his ſickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, & cast it into the great winepreſſe of the wrath of God.

Hyponyms

• winetrough (device); calcatory (site of pressing grapes by foot, obsolete)

Translations

device for squeezing grapes

Armenian: հնձան (hy) (hnjan) Bulgarian: преса за вино f (presa za vino), преса за грозде f (presa za grozde) Catalan: cup (ca) m, premsa de vi f Esperanto: vinpremilo Estonian: viinamarjapress French: pressoir vinicole m, pressoir (fr) m Galician: lagareta f, prensa (gl) f German: Kelter (de) m, Weinkelter (de) m, Trotte (de) f (regional), Torkel (de) m (regional) Greek: Ancient: ληνός f (lēnós) Hebrew: גַּת (he) f (gat) Irish: cantaoir fíona f Italian: torchio vinario m, torchio (it) m Latin: prēlum n, torculum n Ottoman Turkish: صال (sal) Portuguese: prensa de vinho f Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎚 (gt) Welsh: gwasg win f

Further reading

• winepress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia