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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Not only the vat in which the juice was trodden out from the grapes, but in some cases the whole place for the reception of wine, grapes, and orchard-fruit. It was often a room excavated in the ground; thus the husbandman "dug a wine-press" in his vineyard, Matthew 21:33 . See also Proverbs 3:10 Joel 3:13 Haggai 2:16 . See WINE.
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Press'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/p/press.html. 1859.