Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A simple form of press producing pressure by the direct action of a screw: used by printers and bookbinders for dry-pressing, or removing the indentations of impression from printed sheets, and for making bound books more compact and solid.
- noun Same as
clay-press .
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Examples
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The reputation of the Neapolitan screw-press pasta extruder even reached the United States in the late eighteenth century.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Donkor, P.: A hand-operated screw-press for extracting palm oil:
Chapter 11 1989
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Solvent-extracted meal is lower in oil content than screw-press (expeller) or hydraulic press meal and these materials may be solvent-extracted subsequently in order to obtain more edible oil.
Chapter 6 1988
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A horse-drawn screw-press that packed the hay, which was then tied by hand.
Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 John T. Schlebecker
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_ This operation is performed by the aid of a punch and die fitted into a screw-press.
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Now, most well-to-do planters own a tobacco straightener and screw-press, inventions which materially lessen the manual labor of preparing the crop for market.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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It is then taken to another apartment, and placed in duly prepared compartments under a strong screw-press, by which operation it is transformed from a loose cylinder to a well squashed parallelogram.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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The president, exasperated at his answer, gave orders for him to be put into an engine, like a screw-press, which the tyrants had invented to torment the faithful.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Seems to me I 'members seein' old flour sacks doubled for to put de cotton bales in, in de screw-press.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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This he corrected at leisure, and copied with a particular kind of ink which was said to yield half-a-dozen copies upon moist paper put under a screw-press.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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