Definition of "wine-press" []

• A press in which the juice is squeezed from grapes. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press."
• "Sea voyagers would sneer at her, those traveling on the roads would sneer at her, and even women behind the koryas (working clothes; i.e., those who worked in a wine-press or who wove) would sneer at her."
• "Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army closed in around the barricade as the vice grasps the wine-press."