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wine-press

wine-press is the alternative form of winepress.

Meaning of winepress

Noun

winepress (plural winepresses)

  1. A press used to extract juice from grapes as the first step of winemaking.
    • Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepreſſes, and ſuffer thirſt.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 24:11

Forms of wine-press

pluralwine-presses

Questions about wine-press

What is wine-press the alternative form of?
Wine-press is the alternative form of winepress.

Words near wine-press in the dictionary

  1. wine-house
  2. wine-houses
  3. wine-key
  4. wine-keys
  5. wine-ology
  6. wine-press
  7. wine-presses
  8. wine-shop
  9. wine-shops
  10. wine-tree
  11. wine-trees

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