Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The vat or vessel into which the liquor flows from a wine-press.
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Examples
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Green figs are twelve-a-penny; you can get peaches for the asking, and grapes and melons without it; brown men are treading the wine-fat in every little white hill-town, and in
Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat?
Sermons. Volume The Fourth. 1808-1892 1850
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Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat?
A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse Sylvester Bliss 1838
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Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Being compared to one that treads in the wine-fat, such is his condescension, in the midst of his triumphs, that he does not scorn the comparison, but admits it and carries it on.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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"'Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments like him that treadeth the wine-fat?
Mary Olivier: a Life May Sinclair 1904
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It can hardly be that their descendant, lineally come to us, will refuse a cup of wine-fat of the genuine vine of Sorek, grown on the south hillsides of Hebron. "
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The hebrew word here thus rendered is elsewhere rendered "wine-fat" and "press-fat" (Hag.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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These, he learned, were for the accommodation of watchmen appointed to guard the produce from thieves and wild beasts; hence explaining a passage which occurs in the Gospel according to St. Mark: -- "A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the wine-fat, and built a _tower_, and let it out to husbandmen." [
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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* 'Where - fore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat? "
The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq. Thomas Cooper 1812
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