cider press









cider press


cider press ExamplesWord Origin noun

  1. 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.

    A Village of Vagabonds

    F. Berkeley Smith

  • All apples are good in this state, and your jaws 320 are the cider-press.

    Excursions and Poems

    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.

    Dixie Hart

    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

    Various

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