cider press ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a press for crushing apples for cider.
Origin of cider press First recorded in 1665–75 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for cider press Historical Examples of cider press
But then they slept over the cider-press back of the big casks.
F. Berkeley Smith
All apples are good in this state, and your jaws 320 are the cider-press.
Henry David Thoreau
There wasn’t time to say much, so I squeezed Monty’s hand like a cider-press.
The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure
Rex Beach
When we got thar the house was packed as tight as dry apples in a cider-press.
Will N. Harben
In the pure, sweet October air they were gathering apples for the cider-press to-day.
Harper’s Young People, January 13, 1880
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