winepress

Noun

Meaning

winepress (plural winepresses)

A press used to extract juice from grapes as the first step of winemaking.

Hypernyms

Examples

To be crushed in the winepress of passion. Gabriel Biel

Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod. Pope Leo X

I remember Nessim once saying [-] that Alexandria was the great winepress of love; those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex. Lawrence Durrell

And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. Source: Internet

And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. Source: Internet

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