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Not only the vat in which the juice was trodden out from the grapes, but in some cases the whole place for the reception of wine, grapes, and orchard-fruit. It was often a room excavated in the ground; thus the husbandman "dug a wine-press" in his vineyard, Matthew 21:33 . See also Proverbs 3:10 Joel 3:13 Haggai 2:16 . See WINE.

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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Press'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ats/​p/press.html. 1859.
 
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