olive-press

When the aid workers finally bulldozed through the landslide in the road, they found a small community living in tents of corrugated iron lashed to salvaged beams, with discreet latrines dug at a safe distance from the well, their communal olive-press repaired and in working order so that money would continue to be earned and starvation kept at bay.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

Nearly opposite him across the chapel stood Frank Bates; an unbridged gulf of boys separated these rival and contrasted deities, that one the ineffable dweller on cloud-capped Olympus, this the homely clay image, the intimate of hearth and household, the patron of threshing-floor and olive-press.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

When the crops came in, we all took turns to help each other, gathering the vintage, or lending slaves, or sharing an olive-press.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

"I should think not!" said Aristæus, and his teeth flashed in a smile that was very pleasant to see, as he strained at the olive-press.

Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918