winepress

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Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great. "

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  1. noun A vat in which the juice is pressed from grapes.
  2. noun A machine or device that presses the juice from grapes.

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  • There had been plans to add a winepress, but that reality had not come to pass before her father's death. —  Garwood, Julie - Gentle Warrior
  • Revelation 14: 20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Rev 14: 20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
  • When he has cleared away the forest or broken up the land; when he has planted the vineyard and builded the winepress, he has a right to let this out to husbandmen to gather the fruits of his preparation and planting and to share with them in the proportion each has contributed to the production, but to hold all that he himself has produced and yet claim a part of the product of another, is usury. —  Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
  • Demons, whose voices are as rasping as a cart wheel or a winepress screw, cannot imitate the sweet tones of saints. —  The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
 

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