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cider press

noun

  1. a press for crushing apples for cider.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cider press1

First recorded in 1665–75

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Example Sentences

One day I went to his house with three yoke of oxen to haul into place a heavy beam for a cider-press.

Now, don't get in your mind no wrong apparitions of a office deputy doing sums in a book or mashing letters in a cider press.

To make light wines put them at once into press, as apple pomace in a cider-press.

And the old cider-press, and that Noahs ark of a sideboard that we never can use, added Constance.

In many places were piled up little mountains of apples, destined chiefly for the cider press.

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