winepress
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- noun
- /ˈwaɪnˌprɛs/
- Specialized
- In the vineyard, the workers filled the winepress with grapes before turning the crank to squeeze out the juice.
Examples
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Hildegard wrote: "I will be so easily crushed by the falling wooden beams in the winepress of my nature, that heavy wood growing from the root that sprang up in Adam through Satan's influence and cast him out into the world where there was no fatherland."
Fiction book (2002) -
Stating that he would rather wade across the red and white stream running from his winepress than swim across the ocean to see a beloved lady, like the passionate Leander who tried to visit Hero, Gongora changes, in a comic vein, a brave and romantic deed into a banal act lacking sentiment and meaning.
Academic text (1990) -
He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
Blog text (26) -
There was a master of a house, God, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it to tenant Jews, and went into another country.
Blog text (14) -
With images of food, he fashions his work with realistic tidbits of everyday life, such as eating breakfast or a dessert, wading across the stream leaking from his winepress, and roasting a sausage.
Academic text (1990) -
For my purposes here, several examples of the fons pietatis, more directly relevant to our theme than the winepress motif, can take the place of a more detailed genealogy and show the Pulkau Christ's place within the tradition.
Academic text (2005) -
The old winepress was used to extract juice from the freshly picked grapes.
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During the harvest season, the farmers gathered around the winepress to start making wine.
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Winepress is simply the two words wine and press, and press means 'to squeeze'. So a winepress is the tool that squeezes grapes to get 'juice' for making wine.