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wring-house

wring-house noun: the room or building where a cider press is stored.

Noun

wring-house

  1. The room or building where a cider press is stored.
    • A building comprising granary and corn-store and machinery under, provided with the requisites to be worked by a water-wheel 20 ft. diameter; also, cyder-store, wring-house, and apple-loft over, is attached to a mill-stream adjacent, close to the homestead at a much lower level[…]1878, The Builder, page 12
    • Down in the heart of the apple-country nearly every farmer kept a cider-making apparatus and wring-house for his own use, building up the pomace in great straw 'cheeses', as they were called[…]1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, London, page 209

Origin of wring-house

From wring (“press”) + house.

Questions about wring-house

What does wring-house mean?
Wring-house means the room or building where a cider press is stored.
What part of speech is wring-house?
Wring-house is a noun.

Words near wring-house in the dictionary

  1. Wrinehill
  2. wrines
  3. wring
  4. wring out
  5. wring out one's sock
  6. wring-house
  7. wring-staff
  8. wring-stave
  9. wring-staves
  10. wringable
  11. wringbolt

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