Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vat in which the juice is pressed from grapes.
- noun A machine or device that presses the juice from grapes.
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- noun A device used to squeeze
juice fromgrapes as the first part of the process of makingwine
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- noun a press that is used to extract the juice from grapes
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Examples
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Jerusalem: He digged a winepress, that is, He prepared a receptacle of the prophetic Spirit.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Providence; and the winepress was the place of offerings.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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: Or, the winepress is the word of God, which tortures man when it contradicts his fleshly nature.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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(The winepress is the actual press that humans shall be put into so that we may be ground up.)
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Fat i.e. VAT, the word employed in the Authorized Version to translate the Hebrew term yekeb, in (Joel 2: 24; 3: 13) The word commonly used for yekeb is "winepress" or "winefat," and once
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With some of the spare lumber, Shem and Japheth had set up a little lean-to next to the winepress and were sipping Mesopotamian merlot in the shade.
The Arks What Weren't strannikov 2012
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Rev 19: 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
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He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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God is bringing the nations of the world to crush them as grapes of wrath in His winepress.
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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The harvest of Revelation is manifest in the “great winepress of the wrath of God,” which yields a sea of blood rising “unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.”
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
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