wring-house

noun

The room or building where a cider press is stored.

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Meanings

noun
  1. The room or building where a cider press is stored.

    Apples from the estate orchards are collected and stored in the lofts above the wring-house[…]

    2000, Joan Marie Salzmann, The Harbin Newsletter, volumes 12-17, page 26
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    A building comprising granary and corn-store and machinery under, provided with the requisites to be worked by a water-wheel 20 ft. diameter; also, cyder-store, wring-house, and apple-loft over, is attached to a mill-stream adjacent, close to the homestead at a much lower level[…]

    1878, The Builder, page 12

    Down in the heart of the apple-country nearly every farmer kept a cider-making apparatus and wring-house for his own use, building up the pomace in great straw 'cheeses', as they were called[…]

    1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, London, page 209

Origin

From wring (“press”) + house.

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